From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Navy's F-35C Completes Landing Tests Ahead of October Sea Trials Date: 05 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookNavy's F-35C Completes Landing Tests Ahead of October Sea Trials
Boyd had story about original F15 design ... which he reviewed and presented and got a lot of push back from top AF. He then had a review where he asked if they liked the F111 and then did a side-by-side of the F111 and (then) F15 ... showing little or no difference. He then did lot of work to improve F15. When he was doing what became flyoff prototype/F16 ... he tells the story about F15 forces knew he was doing it and came up with story that he was using millions of dollars in unauthorized computer time. Supposedly the president of company making F15 goes to secretary of the airforce and says that Boyd needed to be prosecuted and thrown in Leavenworth for the rest of his life (for "stealing" the computer time) ... Hugh Lorie's reference in "Gun Sellers" about the lengths that MICC will go, isn't fiction. Fortunately they couldn't find any records of the computer use (and in the case of Spinney's front page time article in 1983, there was still some congressional cover ... which appears to be totally lacking these days)
One of the periodic F35 refrains was that it suffers because it was designed to have F22 fly cover for high value threats ... aka cost trade-offs made on how much stealth/capability did the F35 actually need. With F22 cancel (drastically reduced number available) ... backing them into having to overhype the actual F35 stealth and other capability (it originally wasn't designed to do everything but w/o the required F22s, they are now forced to claim it can do everything).
more on comments that F35 had cost trade-offs assuming that it had F22 flying cover:
"If we don't keep F-22 Raptor viable,
the F-35 fleet will be irrelevant" Air Combat Command says
http://theaviationist.com/2014/02/04/f-35-needs-f-22-acc-says/
AIR FORCE:'If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet
Will Be Irrelevant'
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-cenciotti-the-f-35-fleet-will-be-irrelevant-2014-2
posts mentioning military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant' Date: 05 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookIf We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant'
this is old reference to expanding Success of Failure culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
I've periodically commented that beltway bandits are likely using advanced gaming theory techniques to come up with lots of problems and/or failing results in much higher revenue (optimize the maximum amount that can be skimmed from every gov. program)
Health Care Website was another beltway bandit ... local DC news periodically refers to what comes out of congress as Kabuki Theater ... all facade and misdirection ... it is not unlikely that other gov. institutions practice it also. One of the Success of Failure scenarios is that they alternate beltway bandits ... they trade-off who gets paid to fail and who comes in to replace them to supposedly fix it.
The phrase "don't leave money on the table" has become institutionalized. We've been in reviews where everybody admits that what was called for in the contract won't work but tens of millions of dollars will be paid over future years ... and they might consider doing something that would work in a future contract.
Note: price-fixing collusion has been prosecuted in cases where there wasn't explicit coordination ... but show there is a culture and pattern of activity.
Yes that would be nice, analogy is the too big to fail (also too big to prosecute and too big to jail) and the financial mess from last decade. In the oct2008 congressional hearings into the role that the rating agencies played, there was testimony that the rating agencies knew that the toxic CDOs weren't worth triple-A (but they were being paid for them anyway). A major motivation was that it allowed wallstreet to sell the triple-A rated toxic CDOs to pension plans (and other organizations) that were restricted to only deal in "safe" investments. At the time there was TV business news commentary that the rating agencies would be able to blackmail the federal gov. and avoid federal prosecution.
posts mentioning military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Private-equity firms play major role in defense industry today Date: 05 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookPrivate-equity firms play major role in defense industry today
but many private-equity firms also have enormous lobbying power
... and they can get a lot of profit out of just doing a deal somewhat
unrelated to what is bought/sold (old style portfolio churning) Wall
Street Journal Exposes Entirely New Private Equity Tax Scam
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/wall-street-journal-exposes-entirely-new-private-equity-tax-scam.html
this is private-equity buyouts compared to "house flipping" ... the
difference is the loan for the purchase stays with the company bought,
as a result it is possible to sell a company for less than payed and
still make enormous profit ... this claims that over half corporate
defaults are companies currently or formally owned by private equity
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
... the enormous pressure to service the debt load can result in doing whatever is necessary to make money
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
posts mentioning military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:17:19 -0500hancock4 writes:
semi-related to the above: Death of the Dollar
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-02-05/death-dollar
and
Is Upward Mobility in America a Fantasy?
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/02/son-also-rises-gregory-clark-inequality-upward-mobility
The Great American Class War: Plutocracy Versus Democracy
http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/13/the-great-american-class-war-plutocracy-versus-democracy/
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself Date: 06 Feb 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
I'm frequently accused of that ... a person can't understand what is going on with one sentence reply. There is nothing obviously wrong in the article but it is mostly obfuscation and misdirection. What saved IBM wasn't the things that were mentioned.
New Video: The Jet that Ate the Pentagon
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/02/new-video-the-jet-that-ate-the-pentagon.html
F-35 Bad Deal
http://f35baddeal.com/
more DOD
An Open Letter to Appropriators in Congress: End the Budget Gimmicks
and Cut the Pentagon's Slush Fund
http://www.pogo.org/our-work/letters/2014/an-open-letter-to-congress-end-the-budget-gimmicks.html
Half-wit think-tanks pollute the 2015 DOD budget process
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/02/half-wit-think-tanks-pollute-2015-dod.html
The Think Tanks Have Spoken
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2014/02/the-think-tanks-have-spoken.html
military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How many EBCDIC machines are still around? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:29:06 -0500Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> writes:
360 was supposed to have been ascii machine ... but ... periodically
referenced: EBCDIC and the P-Bit, The Biggest Computer Goof Ever
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will be done. I've mentioned this fiasco elsewhere.
... snip ...
by the father of ASCII
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
his history index
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#26 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#27 Origins of EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#39 Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#41 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#63 CAPS Fantasia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#4 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#65 They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#9 Typewriter vs. Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#67 Wondering if I am really eligible for this group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#6 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#45 HP getting out of computer biz
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#23 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#5 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#45 CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#55 "Geek" t-shirts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#100 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#52 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#73 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#36 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#84 72 column cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#52 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#56 Reduced Symbol Set Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#56 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#33 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#35 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#21 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#22 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#37 Subject Unicode
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The PDP-8/e and thread drifT? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:10:04 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
trivia ... cp67 was installed at univ in jan68 with terminal support for
1052 & 2741 ... the univ. had some tty/ascii terminals ... so I added
tty/ascii terminal support to cp67 ... in the process trying to make the
2702 terminal controller do something it couldn't quite do. somewhat as
a result the univ started clone controller effort ... reverse engineer
360/67 channel interface and build channel interface board for
interdata/3 programmed to emulate 2702. interdata starts marketing as
clone controller and it evolves into a interdata/4 handling the channel
interface and cluster of interdata/3s handling line scanners. misc. past
posts (later perkin-elmer buys interdata ... and it is marketed under
the perkin-elmer logo)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How many EBCDIC machines are still around? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:20:33 -0500Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> writes:
360/67 had both 32bit virtual addressing and the ascii p-bit (as well as
multiprocessor channel director where all processors could address all
channels).
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/GA27-2719-2_360-67_funcChar.pdf
pg.15, bit4 24/32-bit mode, bit5 translation mode, bit12 ascii mode
3081 more than decade later introduced "xa-mode" and 31-bit
addressing. later psw formats ... bit12/ascii becoming extended mode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html#5
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:05:08 -0500hancock4 writes:
Griftopia ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
has chapter on CFTC that it use to require significant position in the commodity to play, because (pure) speculators caused wild, irrational price swings ... then there werer 19 secret letters allowing specific specific speculators to play ... which resulted in wild, irrational price swings ... including the huge spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008 (with corresponding large spike in gas prices).
then a member of congress released transaction data showing speculators causing wild, irrational price swings, and the huge spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008. the press then was mostly about criticizing the member of congress for making the transaction data public.
big issue is that speculators are now mostly making bets on change in price ... so they promote a lot of volatility as well as prodding prices to go in the direction they are betting (long past the days were speculators were viewed as helping provide liquidity), nearly anything these days not just commodities but also equities and anything else they can make a bet on and manipulate things in the direction they want
they played this with creating toxic CDOs designed to fail, paying
rating agencies for triple-A rating, selling to their customers and
making CDS bets they would fail. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and latest are claims their manipulation of precious metals and currency
much worse than libor
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-16/metals-currency-rigging-worse-than-libor-bafin-s-koenig-says.html
libor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:22:45 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
recent PIC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#37 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#52 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#61 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#34 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
aka similar but different to military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
old article from last century
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/98dec/prisons.htm
in supporting the prison-industrial complex, US incarceration rate has
increased to the highest in the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
http://www.ibtimes.com/prisoners-100000-us-has-highest-incarceration-rate-world-chart-1384305
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/incarceration-rate-per-capita_n_3745291.html
laws furthering the prison industrial complex
http://www.thenation.com/article/162478/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor
http://www.infowars.com/the-prison-industrial-complex-the-economics-of-incarceration-in-the-usa/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:04:52 -0500re:
recent report/update on prison-industrial complex
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21694-shocking-facts-about-americas-for-profit-prison-industry
i didn't catch the reference but something went by quickly this morning on tv business news about for-profit prisons dumping their prisoners into the federal affordable care act.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:57:45 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
just started reading
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret-ebook/dp/B00BY5QX1K/
so their family had secretary of states, originated the business of
representing corporations on capital hill (lobbying), working for law
firm that is representing corporate clients and uncle at time secretary
of state ... and orchistrate sending in US military into banana
republics on behalf of corporate clients. loc415-19:
He decided to send an envoy on a secret trip to Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
and Panama to enlist the support of their leaders--and who better than
his twenty-nine-year-old nephew? Sullivan & Cromwell had played a key
role in creating the Republic of Panama and building the Panama Canal,
and it was legal counsel to the Panamanian regime. Questions about the
conflict of interest inherent in sending a private lawyer on a
diplomatic mission to a region where his clients had deep financial
interests--and where one of the governments with which he was to
negotiate was also his client--were subsumed by family ties, and Foster
was duly appointed.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:17:53 -0500Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
they had the example of foreign competition making significantly better autos ... but they now also had big issue of warranty costs forcing them also into improving quality.
which took a long time ... and in the mean time (as frequently) mentioned ... while the significant increase in profits was to completely remake themselves ... they just pocketed the money and mostly continued business as usual ... which also resulted in the call for 100% unearned profit tax on the us auto industry.
past posts mentioning call for 100% unearned profit tax
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#41 Reason Japanese cars are assembled in the US (was Re: American bigotry)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#52 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#22 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#2 Internet today -- what's left for hobbiests
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#23 auto industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#17 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor (redux)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#33 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#72 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#88 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#11 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#24 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#28 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#84 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#77 Tell me why the taxpayer should be saving GM and Chrysler (and Ford) managers & shareholders at this stage of the game?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#22 Is Pride going to decimate the auto Industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#63 Have you told your Congressman how to VOTE on the auto bailout?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#18 What next? from where would the Banks be hit?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#57 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#20 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#2 China-US Insights on the Future of the Auto Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#75 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#23 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#21 End of an era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#34 Boyd's Reading List Revisited
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#35 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#73 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#65 Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#81 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#86 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#52 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#22 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#26 Why Can't America Catch UP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#40 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#62 Why Is Finance So Big?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#54 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#78 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#77 Vampire Squid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#70 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#24 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#12 First Battle: Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#61 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#1 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#94 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#40 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#0 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#46 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How many EBCDIC machines are still around? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:20:57 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
as periodic mentioned ascii was in large part IBM invention and 360 originally was supposed to be ascii
360 was supposed to have been ascii machine ... but ... periodically
referenced: EBCDIC and the P-Bit, The Biggest Computer Goof Ever
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is
that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice
President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty
positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will
be done. I've mentioned this fiasco elsewhere.
... snip ...
by the father of ASCII
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
his history index
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How many EBCDIC machines are still around? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:45:05 -0500hancock4 writes:
x-over from pdp-8/e and thread drift
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#6 The PDP-8/e and thread drifT?
about doing clone controller. The 2702 had SAD command that allowed line-scanner to be switched for each port. The base cp67 terminal support did dynamic terminal type identification and switched between 1052 & 2741 line-scanner. when I added the tty/ascii support i extended the dynamic terminal type identification to include tty/ascii ... in theory being able to do any type of terminal on any port. I wanted to have single dialup phone number (in telco "hunt group") for all terminals. It turns out that 2702 had taken short cut and hard-wired line speed for each port ... while it was possible to change the line-scanner on each port ... it wasn't possible to change the line-speed.
the interdata effort included the ability to do dynamic line-speed.
one of the first hardware problem was that the channel interface card held the channel interface (and therefor the memory bus) for too long. 360/67 had 13+microsecond timer tic that updated real storage ... if the memory bus was busy timer update would hold off until the memory bus was available ... unless the timer tic'ed again ... and then it would generate a "red light" hardware fault.
one of the next problems was it appeared that garbage was being transmitted from tty terminal through the interdata into main processor storage. there was slip up and overlooked the fact that the 2702 line scanners loaded leading bit into low bit position in a byte ... so data was transmitted to 360 mainframe "bit-reversed" in a byte. mainframe "translate" tables would convert data back&forth between ebcdic and terminal representation. initially, interdata was stuff leading bit in high bit position in byte ... so data was coming into 360 memory in ascii format ... but was being garbled by the translate table that was assuming it was bit-reversed ascii.
past posts mentioning terminal clone controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 50 years of timesharing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:49:55 -0500cb@bobby.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) writes:
Bemer's index of computer history articles
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
other recent posts mentioning Bemer's pages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#21 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#22 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#37 Subject Unicode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#4 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#5 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#13 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Precious Metals Manipulation Worse Than Libor Scandal, German Regulator Says Date: 07 Feb 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityPrecious Metals Manipulation Worse Than Libor Scandal, German Regulator Says
Metals, Currency Rigging Worse Than Libor, Bafin Chief Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-16/metals-currency-rigging-worse-than-libor-bafin-s-koenig-says.html
post mentioning libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
Fed may restrict bank ownership of commodities
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/14/214504/fed-may-restrict-bank-ownership.html
Federal Reserve May Continue To Promote Wall Street's Expansion Into
Commodities
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/01/14/federal-reserve-may-continue-to-promote-wall-streets-expansion-into-commodities/
Are Banks About to Win on Commodities Trading After Their Success in
Watering Down Basel III Capital Rules?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/banks-win-commodities-trading-success-watering-basel-iii-capital-rules.html
Griftopia has chapter that CFTC had rule that only allowed players with positions in the commodity to play because speculators result in wild, irrational price swings. Then 19 "secret" letters were sent that allowed 19 (mostly bank) speculators to play ... the result included the wild spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008. Later a senator released transaction data showing that the speculators were behind the wild spike in oil over $100 the summer of 2008. Most of the main stream press instead of lauding the senator for releasing the transaction data, heavily criticized him.
posts mentioning Griftopia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
German Gold Manipulation Blowback Escalates: Deutsche Bank Exits Gold
Price Fixing
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-17/german-gold-manipulation-blowback-escalates-deutsche-bank-exits-gold-price-fixing
Sprott: "Manipulation Of Gold By Central Banks Cannot Continue In
2014"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-17/sprott-manipulation-gold-central-banks-cannot-continue-2014
and now market¤cy manipulation:
This Is The Greatest Financial Market And Currency Manipulation Of All
Times
http://goldsilverworlds.com/money-currency/this-is-the-greatest-financial-market-and-currency-manipulation-of-all-times/
Who isn;t probing banks' alleged currency rigging?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26058651
The financial rot just keeps getting worse -- FX is FuXed, the Old
Lady's in on the FiX, and the fight against the devil volatility goes
on?
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/0014a74.html
Bank of England faces scrutiny over forex
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f0c38c5a-8fea-11e3-aee9-00144feab7de,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ff0c38c5a-8fea-11e3-aee9-00144feab7de.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&siteedition=uk&_i_referer=
BOE Staff Said to Have Condoned Currency Traders' Conduct
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/boe-staff-said-to-have-condoned-currency-traders-conduct.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:37:21 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
note it all depends on how the spin is put on things
tv business news explained million workers (not jobs) being able to leave workforce were babyboomers that otherwise couldn't afford to retire because of the cost of health care. with affordable health care they could retire ... and their jobs could be taken by younger workers.
posts mentioning the $12T budget gap created by congress by 2010 after
allowing fiscal responsibility act to expire in 2002 (required spending
couldn't exceed revenue)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
it was in large part the same (republican) party both responsible for the act and also allowing it to expire last decade. the big difference was that last decade the party dominated by those wanting the huge amount of money from special interests for both the tax loopholes (reduce revenue by $6T) and subsidies and bailouts (increase spending by $6T) that results in the $12T budget gap by 2010 (and the after effects continuing disastrous impact on federal debt).
the fundamental flaw in the current health care system is that it provides much worse care & health results for much higher cost than any other first world country. From one facet the enormous cost of health care appears to be a benefit in terms to adding to the national GDP. From another facet trillions are going to line a few pockets contributing little national benefit.
little cross-over, private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
is also doing their part to contribute to the health care mess (part of skimming their trillions)
Outsourcing as an element of the private equity model
http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2013/12/outsourcing-as-element-of-private.html
and
Wall Street Journal Exposes Entirely New Private Equity Tax Scam
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/wall-street-journal-exposes-entirely-new-private-equity-tax-scam.html
IRS Wakes Up to Private Equity Scam
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/irs-wakes-up-to-private-equity-scam.html
an analysis of general private equity strategy of plundering everything
they can (sort of like Sherman's scorched earth)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
what they can't liberate other ways, they borrow and then put the loan on the company's books ... over half the corporate defaults were companies currently or formally owned by private equity.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:04:42 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
this also gets into some detail about conveniently confusing "jobs" &
"workers" and spinning the news "Latest Health Care Flap Shows Media at
its Most Boring"
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/latest-health-care-flap-shows-media-at-its-most-boring-20140206
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:40:35 -0500re:
also facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lynn.wheeler/posts/10202499043692986
my wife's father was command of 1154th combat engineering group, towards
the end out in front of other units and frequently ranking officer and
acquired quite a collection of officer daggers in surrenders (all
ww2/german stuff stolen in burglery a number of yrs ago) ... from his
status reports I found in National Archives:
On 28 Apr we were put in D/S of the 13th Armd and 80th Inf Divs and G/S
Corps Opns. The night of the 28-29 April we cross the DANUBE River and
the next day we set-up our OP in SCHLOSS PUCHHOF (vic PUCHOFF); an
extensive structure remarkable for the depth of its carpets, the height
of its rooms, the profusion of its game, the superiority of its plumbing
and the fact that it had been owned by the original financial backer of
the NAZIS, Fritz Thyssen. Herr Thyssen was not at home.
Forward from the DANUBE the enemy had been very active, and an intact
bridge was never seen except by air reconnaissance. Maintenance of roads
and bypasses went on and 29 April we began constructing 835' of M-2 Tdwy
Br, plus a plank road approach over the ISAR River at PLATTLING.
Construction was completed at 1900 on the 30th. For the month of April
we had suffered no casualties of any kind and Die Gotterdamerung was
falling, the last days of the once mighty WEHRMACHT.
... snip ...
the account of Foster Dulles would have him giving Thyssen run for it in financial dealings supporting Hitler & Nazis ("first and only thing Dulles brothers seriously disagreed").
after end of ETO hostilities my wife's father turned down a district command in Germany. I've suspected it was (reaction to) having liberated some camps. Eventually he was sent to china as adviser to generalissimo (took the family with him to nanking).
past posts mentioning 1154th:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#11 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#16 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#60 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#35 What Makes sorting so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#41 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 9th Feb 2014 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 08:54:45 -0500Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
at the time there was an internal joke that they lost $5 on every ps2
sold, but they were going to make it up in volume. the head of ps2 at
the time had come over from the mainframe division (long ago and far
away he had con'ed my wife into coming over from the JES2 group to be
responsible for loosely-couple architecture ... aka mainframe for
cluster). He then contracted with dataquest (since bought by gartner) to
do a study of where PCs were going .. including a video taped roundtable
of silicon valley experts. I knew the person at dataquest and they asked
if I would be part of the roundtable ... I cleared it with my management
... and dataquest managed to garble who I was so it wasn't glaringly
obvious to the PS2 people who I was. past posts mentioning the
dataquest study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#55 Moore law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#34 Two subjects: 64-bit OS2/eCs, Innotek Products
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#21 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#81 IBM to the PCM market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#0 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#60 more on (the new 40+ yr old) virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#5 Houses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#6 Houses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#69 Intel's Future is integrated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#62 How long before Microsoft goes the way of DEC (and in part, IBM)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#10 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#78 SLIGHTLY OT - Home Computer of the Future (not IBM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#44 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The PDP-8/e and thread drifT? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:40:10 -0500jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
San Jose disk division had client/server LAN project called DataHub
with a lot of software being implemented under work for hire contract
by a operation in Provo. The project gets shutdown and the operation
in Provo is allowed to retain rights to the software they had been
doing. Shortly afterwards a new client/server LAN company appears in
Provo (starts with letter "N"). past reference to DataHub presentation
at corporate adtech conference I sponsored the spring of 1982
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a John Hartmann's Birthday Party
Later another IBM group in Palo Alto is working with Berkeley's on some
BSD unix stuff and UCLA's Locus UNIX work-alike (ported to Series/1
and 386 machines). Initially they were doing a BSD port to IBM
mainframe ... but that gets retargeted to PC/RT and comes out as "AOS"
(alternative to AIX). They eventually port Locus to mainframe and 386
and it comes out as the combination aix/370 and aix/386 products
(locus can do network files, file caching, and partial file caching,
also distributed execution, non-distributive process migration across
network ... in some cases between dissimilar architectures).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS_%28operating_system%29
OSF/1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_Foundation
has some of CMU's AFS network filesystem with some influence from Locus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System
middle to late 80s my wife is co-author of response to a large
government request for distributed computing environment ... where
3-tier network architecture is included. We then are out do customer
executive presentations on 3-tier ... and taking lots of *barbs* from
the communication group which are trying to protect their low-speed,
dumb terminal paradigm and install base. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
in parallel we had also been working with NSF and their supercomputer centers ... we were suppose to get $20m to tie together the centers. Congress then cuts the budget and several other things happen, and eventually NSF releases an RFP. Internal politics prevents us from bidding, the director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just makes the internal politics worse.
With regional networks connecting, this evolves into the NSFNET
backbone which becomes the basis for the modern internet.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
other references to datahub
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#40 No more innovation? Get serious
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#19 When will IBM buy Sun?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#79 Coulda, Woulda, Shoudda moments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#33 Over-the-shoulder effect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#26 MP cost effectiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#13 Alpha performance, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#16 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#23 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#9 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#36 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#39 Token-ring vs Ethernet - 10 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#31 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#17 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#49 How difficult would it be for a SYSPROG ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#21 The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#86 The Unexpected Fact about the First Computer Programmer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#35 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#53 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#8 MAINFRAME Training with IBM Certification and JOB GUARANTEE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#36 Making tea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#68 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#58 When did "client server" become part of the language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#15 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#3 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#59 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#18 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#14 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#4 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#27 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning Date: 10 Feb 2014 Blog: IBMersUS Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
A big market for IBM mainframes has been legacy overnight batch settlement. There were numerous failed efforts in the 90s to move to striaght-through processing (and off mainframes and legacy overnight batch settlement). This may put another nail in overnight batch settlement ... provide a lot more pressure for move to straight-through processing
sort of the leading edge of distributed computing tsunami was 4341s
... cost/performance was dropping through some threshold and 4341 had
significantly reduced environmental footprint ... large corporations
were ordering them hundreds at a time and putting them out into
departmental areas. Inside IBM, so many went into departmental
conference rooms that conference rooms started to become scarce
commodity. Also, clusters of 4341 were less expensive than 3033s, had
higher aggregate throughput, more memory, more I/O and lower space and
environmental requirements. Issue got to the point that the head of
POK (large mainframes) got the internal allocation of critical 4341
manufacturing component cut in half. some old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
The original sql/relational was system/r (done on vm370 370/145 at san
jose research) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
... this is old email about BofA had deployed 60 4341s (with system/r)
and needed help with distributed computing support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email800311b
later we were working with NSF and their supercomputer centers and
were suppose to get $20M to connect the NSF supercomputers
centers. Then congress cut the budget and a few other things happen
... and they finally release RFP. Internal politics prevent us from
bidding, director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just makes the internal
politics worse (as does comments that what we already had running was
at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
The regional networks connect to these centers and it evolves into the
NSFNET backbone ... which becomes the basis for the modern
internet. Reference to it also the basis for GRID and cloud computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
at the time, the communication group had an internal misinformation
campaign claiming that NSFNET backbone could be run over
SNA/VTAM. Somebody forwarded a collection of their emails to us
... heavily snipped and redacted (to protect the guilty):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
Note that IBM has had a base list price for a e5-2600 blade of $1815 which have processor ratings of 400-600 BIPS ($3-$4/BIPS). Large cloud megadatacenters have clamed for a decade or more that they assemble their own servers from 1/3rd the cost of brand name ($1/BIPS). Recently server chip makers have claimed they ship more server chips to large cloud megadatacenters than to brand name vendors (possibly contributing to IBM's decision to sell off their server business). By comparison, max configured z196 with 80 processors goes for $28M and has rating of 50BIPS ($560,000/BIPS). IBM financials says that mainframe group earns total of $6.25 for every $1 in processor sales ... bringing it to $3.5M/BIPS (compared to $1/BIPS by large cloud megadatacenters).
In 1980, I was asked to do channel extender for STL that was moving 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg. Part of this was playing games with channel program to significantly reduce the latency to the remote location (significantly improving throughput). In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they have which morphs into fibre-channel standard. Later some POK channel engineers layer some heavy-weight protocol on FCS that drastically cuts the native throughput which morphs into FICON. Peak z196 I/O benchmarks has it doing 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (layered on top of 104 FCS). Also, peak is 2.2M SSCH/sec with all system assist processors running 100% busy, however recommendation is keeping SAPs to 70% or 1.5M SSCH/sec. By comparison a new FCS was announced for e5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such FCS has higher throughput than peak z196 I/O benchmark with 104 FICON).
posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
past posts mentioning overnight batch processing and straight-through
processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#40 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#31 Quote from comp.object
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#36 Future of System/360 architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#3 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#5 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#19 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#21 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#44 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#61 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#19 Education ranking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#27 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#64 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#69 Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#72 whats the world going to do when all the baby boomers retire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#81 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#3 on-demand computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#74 Too much change opens up financial fault lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#30 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#31 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#73 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#87 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#89 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#55 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#50 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#56 Long running Batch programs keep IMS databases offline
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#30 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technolgies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#35 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technolgies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#7 If you had a massively parallel computing architecture, what unsolved problem would you set out to solve?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#87 Cleaning Up Spaghetti Code vs. Getting Rid of It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#43 Business process re-engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#14 Legacy clearing threat to OTC derivatives warns State Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#1 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#2 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#21 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#23 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#57 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#81 A Faster Way to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#81 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#67 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#68 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#77 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#16 How long for IBM System/360 architecture and its descendants?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#37 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#47 COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#41 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#3 Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#14 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#37 A Bright Future for Big Iron?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#19 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#42 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#35 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#45 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#15 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#19 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#91 Mainframe Fresher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#93 Itanium at ISSCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#1 Itanium at ISSCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#8 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#52 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#70 New IBM Redbooks residency experience in Poughkeepsie, NY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#10 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#23 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#8 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#49 US payments system failing to meet the needs of the digital economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#0 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#24 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#36 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#31 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#47 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#18 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#56 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#42 COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#50 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#42 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#80 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#3 We need to talk about TED
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:44:52 -0500re:
James Surowiecki Promotes Myth of Consumer Empowerment in the Face of
the Crappification of Almost Everything
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/james-surowiecki-promotes-myth-consumer-empowerment-face-crappification-almost-everything.html
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed Date: 10 Feb 2014 Blog: IBM AlumniIBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
note that most stuff has been whatever boosts executive compensation:
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
another area is employee retirement
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
from this recent book about lots of details about different ways
corporations came up with for raiding pension plans
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
Note part of the issue was the communication group. Late 80s, a senior
disk engineer got a talk scheduled at an annual, world-wide, internal
communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance but
opened the talk with the statement that the communication group was
going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue
was that the communication group had strategic ownership for
everything that crossed datacenter walls and were strangling
datacenters trying to protect their slow-speed, dumb terminal paradigm
and install base ... fighting off distributed computing and
client/server. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the
datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop
in disk sales. The disk division had come up with several solutions
that were constantly vetoed by the communication group. A few short
years later the company goes into the red and the disk division is now
no more. some past posts about communication group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
Note corporate america top executives have developed a tradition of doing everything to maximize their personal benefit as they are retiring. There is the case from a few years ago of the CFO at a us auto maker cutting a deal to sell off their most profitable operation his last year before retirement (because his bonus was a percent of the sale). Stockman's book has a lot of focus about top executives doing everything possible in their own interest as they are going out the door.
Remember, IBM had been restructured into 13 "baby blues" in
preparation for splitting up the company ... this was before the board
brought in Gerstner to resurrect the company and reverse the
breakup. At this rate, it may come to the same thing ... just took a
little longer. posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
from recent discussion thread on PS2 in a.f.c. I would harass the PS2
division by posting clone quantity 1 prices from sunday sjmn on the
internal network ... old post with some of those prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#82
at the time there was an internal joke that they lost $5 on every ps2 sold, but they were going to make it up in volume. the head of ps2 at the time had come over from the mainframe division (long ago and far away he had con'ed my wife into coming over from the JES2 group to be responsible for loosely-couple architecture ... aka mainframe for cluster). He then contracted with dataquest (since bought by gartner) to do a study of where PCs were going .. including a video taped roundtable of silicon valley exports. I knew the person at dataquest and they asked if I would be part of the roundtable ... I cleared it with my management ... and dataquest managed to garble who I was so it wasn't glaringly obvious to the PS2 people.
stinking Corporate Revenues, Desperately Doctored Earnings-Per-Share
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/wolf-richter-stinking-corporate-revenues-desperately-doctored-earnings-per-share.html
from above
And that's before you get to all the other games public companies have
been playing: lowering earnings guidance so they can claim to beat the
easier targets, the reliance on accounting tricks (reader Scott
pointed out that when IBM, famous for strained accounting to maintain
earnings growth, couldn't maintain the momentum, you knew that the
economy was weaker than the cheerleaders wanted you to believe) and
for many supposedly industrial companies, the use of Treasury as a
profit center (for Toyota and other major manufacturers, we noted in
ECONNED that financial operations accounted for roughly 25% of
earnings. It's hard to imagine that the financialization of large
corporations has done anything but increase).
... snip ...
and from upthread:
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
other recent posts mentioning stock buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#14 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#16 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#25 IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#34 IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#48 IBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#79 Shocking news: Execs do what they're paid to do
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#101 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#104 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:30:05 -0500re:
reign in US's exploding health care costs
America's Make-Work Sectors (Healthcare & Higher Education) Have Run Out
of Oxygen
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-10/americas-make-work-sectors-healthcare-higher-education-have-run-out-oxygen
also reference to higher education. quiet a bit has been written on how wallstreet got congress to make the student loans exempt from bankruptcy laws ... then wallstreet and higher education went on binge ... with higher education rapidly increasing fees and non-teaching staff.
Elizabeth Warren Urges Bankruptcy Option for Private Student Loans
https://www.ringoffireradio.com/2013/09/elizabeth-warren-urges-bankruptcy-option-for-private-student-loans/
How A Private Company Stacked The Deck Against Student Loan Debtors
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/02/3113801/student-loans-private-company-bankruptcy/
Sallie Mae Student Loans -- The Heart of the Crisis
http://www.studentdebtrelief.us/uncategorized/sallie-mae-student-loans-the-heart-of-the-crisis/
Five proposals to solve $1 trillion college loan crisis
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/story/2012-05-21/solutions-to-student-loan-crisis/55117944/1
now some of this somewhat overlaps the prison-industrial complex. in theory while debtors prison aren't allowed in the US ... special interests came with legislation that called it something else
As economy flails, debtors' prisons thrive
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/as-economy-flails-debtors-prisons-thrive/
Debtors Prisons
https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/debtors-prisons
Debtors Prison
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/debtors-prison
Debtors' prison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%27_prison
from above:
While the United States no longer has brick and mortar debtors' prisons,
or "gaols for debtors" of private debts, the term "debtor's prison" in
modern times sometimes refers to the practice of imprisoning indigent
debtors for matters related to a fee imposed in criminal
judgments[8][31] with more than a third of U.S. states routinely
flouting federal regulations against the imprisonment of debtors for
inability to pay legal fines.[32][33] To what extent a debtor will
actually be prosecuted varies from state to state.[4] This modern use of
the term debtors' prison arguably has its start with precedent rulings
in 1970, 1971 and 1983 by the U.S. Supreme Court,[5][34] and passage of
the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978
... snip ...
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: JPMorgan Sued For Crony Justice - Presenting "A Decade of Illegal Conduct by JP Morgan Chase" Date: 10 Feb 2014 Blog: Google+re:
JPMorgan Sued For Crony Justice - Presenting "A Decade of Illegal
Conduct by JP Morgan Chase"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-10/jpmorgan-sued-crony-justice-presenting-decade-illegal-conduct-jp-morgan-chase
from above:
Did we mention that nobody from JPM has gone to prison, and instead as
of late last week, one of the biggest JPM culprits was set to become a
member of the CFTC's advisery panel before the people and not the
regulators, were forced to step in? Why?
... snip ...
Better Markets sues Justice Department over JPMorgan settlement
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/us-lawsuit-justice-jpmorgan-idUSBREA191ET20140210
JPMorgan's Masters Said to Quit CFTC Panel After One Day
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/jpmorgan-s-masters-said-to-withdraw-from-cftc-advisery-panel.html
Eric Holder: Some Banks Are So Large That It Is Difficult For Us To Prosecute Them
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-06/eric-holder-some-banks-are-so-large-it-difficult-us-prosecute-them
posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:37:12 -0500re:
Congress twists the relevant facts on purpose; Commentary: lawmakers
deliberately distorted a recent Congressional Budget Office report
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/02/10/14219/congress-twists-relevant-facts-purpose
from above:
The CBO never suggested that those jobs would be "lost" or that hundreds
of thousands or millions of people would be laid off because of
Obamacare. Rather, the law is expected to reduce the labor participation
rate, meaning that many people will choose of their own free will not to
stay in jobs because they need the health insurance.
... snip ...
for other drift, after the fiscal responsibility act was allowed to
expire in 2002
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
the first major legislation was medicare part-d which has been
characterized as a long-term $40T gift to the pharmaceutical industry
that comes to swamp all other budget items. cbs 60mins did an expose on
the legislation process ... after it passes, the primary 18 individuals
responsible resign and are on drug industry payroll
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
one of the reasons that comptroller general started making references
to nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for
how they were savaging the budget process)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
and for the fun of it
JPMorgan Sued For Crony Justice - Presenting "A Decade of Illegal
Conduct by JP Morgan Chase"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-10/jpmorgan-sued-crony-justice-presenting-decade-illegal-conduct-jp-morgan-chase
from above:
Did we mention that nobody from JPM has gone to prison, and instead as
of late last week, one of the biggest JPM culprits was set to become a
member of the CFTC's advisery panel before the people and not the
regulators, were forced to step in? Why?
... snip ...
Better Markets sues Justice Department over JPMorgan settlement
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/us-lawsuit-justice-jpmorgan-idUSBREA191ET20140210
JPMorgan's Masters Said to Quit CFTC Panel After One Day
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/jpmorgan-s-masters-said-to-withdraw-from-cftc-advisery-panel.html
Eric Holder: Some Banks Are So Large That It Is Difficult For Us To Prosecute Them
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-06/eric-holder-some-banks-are-so-large-it-difficult-us-prosecute-them
posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to
jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:10:32 -0500jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
prosecution, putting in jail, and excluded from working in the business (sort of like disbarring lawyer after being convicted and serving jail time) was used in the S&L crisis ... and worked as deterrent ... although even there several of the major players managed to escape relatively unscathed
I first started to see the too big to presecute and too big to jail
in references to too big to fail having their hands slapped when the
same too big to fail institutions repeatedly caught money laundering
for drug cartels and terrorists (which otherwise would have required the
executives thrown in jail and the institution shutdown)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
one of the articles referred to the too big to fail as responsible (because of all their money laundering for drug cartels) for turning Mexico into another Colombia (and enabler for much of the gang violence).
the current too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to
jail culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
has been going on for well over a decade with the same individuals
reaping huge rewards and at worse their institutions being asked to
periodically pay relatively small fines (compared to the actual
amounts involved). This is part of the factors that contribute to
"moral hazard"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
which isn't a revenge scenario ... it has created an environment where the individuals believe there is almost no downside to criminal behavior. Imagine if something similar happened involving violent crimes where all police and criminal prosecution were eliminated ... or that police had absolutely no limits &/or curbs on their behavior.
note as I previously mentioned ... Gerstner was in competition to
be the next CEO of AMEX, the looser leaves and takes his protege
with him ... they go to Baltimore and take over what has been
called a loansharking business
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/15/why-jamie-dimons-2-billion-gambling-loss-will-not-speed-financial-reform/
they take over some number of other things and eventually take over Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greespan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of glass-steagall (enabling too big to fail). The protege then leaves and becomes head of JPMorgan
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts mentioning Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Broadband pricing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:28:25 -0500Ibmekon writes:
Death By Metadata: The NSA's Secret Role In the US Drone Strike
Program
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/02/10/2135242/death-by-metadata-the-nsas-secret-role-in-the-us-drone-strike-program
Use of NSA metadata to find drone targets kills civilians - Greenwald
http://rt.com/news/nsa-drones-civilian-casualties-383/
NSA Metadata Used For Drone Strikes
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/02/10/nsa-metadata-used-for-drone-strikes/
New NSA Revelation: U.S. Drone Strikes Kill Innocents By Targeting NSA
Phone Data
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-nsa-revelation-us-drone-strikes.html
Drone strikes kill innocents by targeting NSA phone data, not people:
Greenwald
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/10/5396920/drone-strikes-have-killed-innocents-with-nsa-data
Report: NSA Relies on Unreliable Phone Data for Drone Strikes
http://gizmodo.com/report-nsa-phone-data-guides-drone-strikes-which-kill-1519744305
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:38:37 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
from the article (regarding their "loansharking" business):
As outlined in an excellent takedown by Michael Hudson in Southern
Exposure in 2003, the firm specialized in preying on poor people,
especially African Americans such as Johnny Slaughter, from Noxubee
County, Mississippi, who not only was charged 40.92 percent on his loan
in the mid-1990s but was also sold disability insurance even though he
already had a disabling spinal injury. A neighbor, Mattie Henley, was
charged 44.14 percent.
... snip ...
makes them out to be predators with the rest of the world to be preyed on.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How many EBCDIC machines are still around? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:27:22 -0500Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> writes:
old description of spook base ... gone 404 but lives on at the wayback
machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
about the same time, I had been con'ed into doing a summer at Boeing to help setup up boeing computer services ... i.e. bringing all dataprocessing into a separate business unit ... in theory helping monetize the investment. At the time, I thought that Renton datacenter was possibly the largest in the world ... but it was only pegged around $300m in IBM computers ... although they had a disaster scenario that involved Mt. Rainier heating up, creating a mudslide that takes out the renton datacenter ... and were duplicating renton at the new 747 plant in Everett (estimate that it would cost the company more being w/o Renton datacenter for a week than the cost of Renton datacenter)
past posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#72 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#5 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#7 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#13 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#14 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:45:56 -0500hancock4 writes:
as I've mentioned before, Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the recently
scanned Pecora hearings (scanned the fall2008 at Boston Public Library,
1930s congressional hearings into the crash of '29 and instrumental in
prosecution of many of those responsible) with lots of internal HREFs as
well as lots of URLs that correspond to what happened this time and what
happened then (some anticipation that the new congress would have
appetite to do something). I worked on it for awhile and then got a call
saying it wouldn't be needed after all (references to enormous piles of
wallstreet money blanketing capital hill).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
several went to jail ... and passage of Glass-Steagall holding off too big to fail institutions being able to do it again.
also, S&L crisis had over 700 prosecuted ... a couple recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#73 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#26 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
note that a big part of S&L crisis was to remove all regulatory oversight
during the 80s ... allowing all sorts of criminals to come in and buy up
a S&L and loot it. One of the regulators that was involved eventually in
prosecution ... later wrote a book, "the best way to rob a bank is to
own one" ... some past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#18 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#26 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#35 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#41 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#43 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#45 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#52 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#49 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#95 Royal Pardon For Turing
in the 80s, the administrative point person for eliminating regulatory
oversight of S&Ls was the vice president ... and several of his sons got
involved in S&L activity ... most notably:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
some past references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#80 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#43 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#59 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#2 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#8 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
one of which then shows up again last decade.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:21:20 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
This also came up in the mid-90s when the associations were trying to
define a "secure" transaction for internet payment using digital
certificates. The problem was that the additional digital certificate
payload added 8k to 12k bytes to an AUTH packet transmission (100-fold
payload bloat increase) and also increased CPU processing time by over a
factor of 100 times. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#bloat
when they first made the specification public, i did a transaction payload and processing profile and got somebody to do the timings on the associate crypto ops ... and also did a business process profile ... which I presented back to the group ... which included a number of techno experts from various companies (including IBM). Their response was that the crypto op timings were a factor of 100 times too slow.
It was obvious that they had never actually done any real crypto ops in their lives ... for the timings the standard industry crypto software library had been used ... with special speedups that made it four times faster (if they had known anything they would have instead said that the crypto times were four times too fast).
After showing that the digital certificates added over a factor of 100 times payload bloat ... the PKI industry got a project in the X9 financial standard group to work on "compressed" digital certificates ... trying to get the over 100 times payload bloat down to only ten times payload bloat. I gave them a demonstration where I used their techniques to get compressed digital certificates down to zero bytes. They then could mandate every financial transaction carry a zero byte compress digital certificate (some people don't appreciate that kind of ridicule).
as an aside ... typical number involving cash at retail is seven percent "shrinkage" ... i.e. between what shows at the register and what shows up in the account balance (some of it is banks charge businesses for handling physical money).
One of the things that the transit industry challenged me on when I was
working on chip for point-of-sale ... was to have it down within the
transit gate power&timing requirements ... w/o compromise any security
when used for high-value debit or credit transactions. transit wanted
contactless and elapsed time of 100ms (and everybody else wanted to
compromise of security).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
chip cards at the time required contacts because they had huge number of circuits for big number operations in order to get crypto processing down to several seconds. the goal that they set for me was to have much stronger crypto ... but being able to do with very few circuits using contactless RF power and in 100ms elapsed time.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:17:22 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
post in past thread about tradeoff between income tax and alcohol and
tobacco tax
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
1900 alcohol/tobacco tax was 43% of federal revenue and custom duties was 41% of federal revenue.
post also wanders into military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
latest tome from one of Boyd's acolytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
on MICC
Revolving Door Syndrome in the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex
The Best Government Money Can Buy
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/11/the-best-government-money-can-buy/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:25:40 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#11 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#19 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
above has reference from book that John Foster Dulles support for Hitler and the Nazis was "first and only thing Dulles brothers seriously disagreed". Book also mentions one of Allen's closest friends on long island was Kermit Roosevelt
old post with reference Kermit shows up in 1953 responsbile for the overthrow of
the democratically elected gov. in Iran
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
recently rewatched Charlie Wilson's War ... last scene in the movie was asking for funds for schools because half the returning males were under 15yrs ... and then in place of "The End" ... it had ... "and then we f**ked the end game"
there was recent discussion about the administration in the 80s
"cut and run" from both the middle east and Afghanistan ... which
left it to come back again and again ... Spinney's theme of
"perpetual war" supporting MICC ... reference to one of his articles
from today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#34 Royal Pardon For Turing
MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:23:21 -0500greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
note that 30s worldwide some that may have admired germany ... didn't actually visit there. John Foster Dulles spent time there and did lots of business deals ... which significantly contributed to their war effort ... and as noted, his brother strongly disagreed with him
also somewhat in tradition of his grandfather creating the lobbying
profession ... he simulataneously served the gov. and corporate clients
... involving activities that would now be considered illegal conflict
of interest loc1028-30
Sometimes they served both at once. In a later age, their conflicts of
interest would have been considered not just unethical but illegal. Yet
no one asked them for financial disclosures, and few eyebrows were
raised when they found ways to profit from their diplomatic assignments.
... and loc1328-30:
By the time Foster marked his fiftieth birthday in 1938, he was more
influential than any other private lawyer in the United States.
Nonetheless he was restive, and began to reflect on the future course of
his life. He had his share of private disappointments; the vote to pull
Sullivan & Cromwell out of Nazi Germany had shaken him,
... snip ...
not only his brother disagreed with him ... but also the rest of his law firm.
a son-in-law did two tours in Iraq ... first tour was Falujah during height of fighting and the 2nd was Baqubah which is described as worse than Falujah. The difference is after Falujah there was the "surge" and claims that everything had been fixed ... so they couldn't really publish anything about it getting worse. Various accounts of the surge includes paying substantial amounts of "tributes" (aka bribe).
recent posts mentioning Baqubah
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#79 Army Modernization Is Melting Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
note that MICC can pull a different kind of "foreign aid" ... "directed
appropriations" ... where the country can only spend it on specific
american made weapons. one account of MICC has it approaching former
eastern block countries and in turn for them voting for the invasion of
Iraq, their membership in NATO would be sponsored as well as ("directed
appropriations") foreign aid to buy NATO compatible weapons (aka US
made) ... another form of bribes ... especially egregious since the WMD
justification for the invasion was pure fabrication ... recent references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#54 Royal Pardon For Turing
MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How many EBCDIC machines are still around? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:38:27 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
email mentioning APL translate tables for ascii terminals
(bit paired & type pared)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email800301
posts mentioning cms dmscit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#35 difference between itanium and alpha
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#11 what's the difference between LF(Line Fee) and NL (New line) ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#0 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#0 tty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#24 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#25 spacewar
part of the issue was in transition to vm/sp in the 80s ... they
introduced significant performance & throughput degradation that was
partially masked with some tricks for 3270 full-screen i/o ... but was
horribly evident for ascii terminal customers ... especially very large
vm370 3-letter government agency (actually going back to early cp67
days). old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#57 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#22 Today's mainframe--anything to new?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:12:06 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
note lots of medicaid is medical industry.
Medicaid is run by the states but feds provide 50% of the funds. Estimate is that medical industry fraud & bill padding accounts for 20-30% of medicaid costs (hard for somebody receiving medicaid care to turn that into financial gain).
feds had a program for state legislatures ... that if they passed anti-fraud best practices legislation ... the FEDs would increase their share of medicaid to 60% (reduction in fraud more than offset increase in funding percent).
in numerous states, the medical lobby is so strong that legislation didn't pass (i.e. the anti-fraud loss to the medical profession was significant hit ... more than sufficient motivation to mount expensive lobbying campaign).
past posts mentioning medicaid (and much of the fraud problem motivated
by medical industry greed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#61 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#14 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#19 Another "migration" from the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#7 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#34 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#35 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#98 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#17 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#71 "Rat Your Boss" or "Rats to Riches," the New SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#34 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#37 WHAT, WHY AND HOW - FRAUD, IMPACT OF AUDIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#12 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#31 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#37 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#6 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#81 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#66 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Spy Chief Says Snowden Took Advantage of "Perfect Storm" of Security Lapses Date: 12 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookSpy Chief Says Snowden Took Advantage of "Perfect Storm" of Security Lapses
Note that some number from the INFOSEC side of the house participated in X9 financial standards ... based on all the stuff that they were saying back to the 90s ... I can't see how anybody could have walked away with all that information. Possible explanation is that torrent of privatizing of intelligence by for-profit companies during the last decade resulted in all sorts of corners being cut (claims are 70% of the intelligence budget and over half the people are now for-profit companies). The mention of expert employee of for-profit company ... might better be done as what is primary objective of for-profit company.
Some IBM content. After Gerstner leaves IBM he goes on to head private
equity company Carlyle ... which then does reverse-IPO private equity
take-over of BAH. Lots has been written that private equity take-over
companies are under intense pressure to cut all sorts of corners in
order to meet revenue objectives. private equity companies suck profit
out of the companies they take-over by putting enormous loans on their
books ... which has resulted in over half of corporate defaults are
companies currently or previously owned by private-equity company.
posts mentioning gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts mentioning private equity business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
one of the claims for congress at fault is expecting 5% kickback (in
the form of various donations and lobbying activity) from
appropriations going to for-profit companies (rules about
gov. agencies not being able to lobby congress are fairly
strict). note that there was whistleblower in 2007 that went to
congress and congress investigated then and put the agency on
probation. the agency charged the whistleblower with same crimes as
the current case even though there was no public release of classified
material ... only threat was to senior bureaucratic careers (charges
only relatively recently dropped). Success of Failure culture:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
in theory, any problems should have been cleared up at that time ... however, congress may have just used the probation to further privatize the intelligence community.
other Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON Date: 12 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookF-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
There is also Pierre Sprey (F16 & A10) on F35 is a lemon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
ELP
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/p/f-35-reading-list.html
quotes this
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
which I understand the F35 design point was sort of swarms of stand-off air support with F22 flying cover/interference. F35 "stealth" compromised to reduce cost and concentrated on the front ... facing ground adversary. Missions compromised with 1) cancel of F22 and 2) years late ... potentially facing real, much newer adversaries.
A newer scenario might be modern F22 replacement with the accompanying swarm unmanned.
other recent posts mentioning f35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#0 Navy's F-35C Completes Landing Tests Ahead of October Sea Trials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#1 If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#4 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:37:52 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
OSI sure sounds like the organization behind "economic hitman", Dulles
bros, loc2044-47:
Overseas Consultants Inc., formed by eleven large American engineering
firms, that aimed to do nothing less than change the world by making
poor countries-and themselves-rich. The visionaries who ran OCI were
looking for a country to transform.
... and their initial target was Iran, loc2049-52:
The elaborate OCI proposal to Iran, five volumes long, envisioned
huge-scale projects including hydroelectric plants, rebuilt cities,
and new industries imported from abroad. Mohammad Reza Shah, who had
grown up mainly in Europe and knew little of his homeland, was
captivated but uncertain. The directors of OCI needed a special envoy
to close the deal. They hired Allen, who was a famous charmer as well
as the former head of the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs.
... then a democratically elected gov. was all set to throw monkey
wrench into their plans ... loc2065-67
Mossadegh grew up watching outsiders loot his prostrate country.
Through corrupt deals, predatory foreign companies acquired the right
to establish Iran's banks, print its currency, and run its post
office, telegraph service, railroads, and ferry lines. One Western
firm bought the caviar industry, another the tobacco industry. At the
beginning of the twentieth century oil was discovered in Iran, but
British officials bribed a puppet monarch, Mozaffar al-Din Shah, into
signing it away. The ocean of petroleum that lay beneath Iran's soil
became the property of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, owned
principally by the British government.
... snip ...
until Kermit Roosevelt orchistrated its overthrow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
other recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#40 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:40:42 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
latest on too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
gaming the infrastructure
The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet;
Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually
buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212
a little from above:
The regulators are almost worse. Remember the 2008 collapse happened
when government bodies like the Fed, the Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision -- whose entire
expertise supposedly revolves around monitoring the safety and soundness
of financial companies -- somehow missed that half of Wall Street
was functionally bankrupt.
... snip ...
above references past articles:
The Great American Bubble Machine; From tech stocks to high gas prices,
Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the
Great Depression -- and they're about to do it again
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
The Feds vs. Goldman; The government's case against Goldman Sachs barely
begins to target the depths of Wall Street's criminal sleaze
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-feds-vs-goldman-20100426
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever; The
Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year
reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big
banks can't fix
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425
also google+
https://plus.google.com/102794881687002297268/posts/6oovqmEMyGz
posts mentioning griftopia and/or vampire squid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
posts mentioning Pecora hearings and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:33:57 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
too big to fail caught repeatedly money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists ... nominally requires putting executives in jail and shutting down the instititon ... however they are left to do it again and again (when I 1st started seeing references to too big to presecute and too big to jail ... as well as too big to fail responsible for turning Mexico into another Colombia)
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
American Government Backed Murderous Mexican Drug Cartel for More Than a
Decade
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-14/american-government-backed-murderous-mexican-drug-cartel-more-decade
from above:
The U.S. government has -- at least at some times in some parts of the
world -- long protected drug operations. (Big American banks also
launder money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this. Indeed,
drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the
2008 financial crisis.)
And opium production is at an all-time high under the American
occupation of Afghanistan.
... snip ...
Taliban had eliminated opium production and in 2002 CIA played on the
warlords dissatisfaction with loss of drug business
https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization-ebook/dp/B00H2VFGZ4/
loc2082-84:
When the United States decided to support the Northern Alliance before
it attacked the Taliban in early 2002, U.S. officials took action to
ensure this disaffection. Direct payments from Central Intelligence
Agency operatives and the potential of unfettered opium production under
the Northern Alliance exerted a powerful influence on Afghanistan's
guerrilla entrepreneurs.
... snip ...
recent reference to rewatching "charlie wilson's war" and in place
of "the end" at the finish ... "... we f**ked up the end-game".
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
reference to subverting Iran's democratically elected government
because it wasn't going to let outsiders pillage the country
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#41 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:55:07 -0500jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
sounds a little like the answer "yes or no, have you stopped beating your wife?"
quicky search says (25Mar2013) SCOTUS holds Federal Medicaid Anti-Lien Statute
pre-empts state law on recovery of medical expenses
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b0e4f765-4dc7-4932-ab92-5a1251e8f7b1
it says that states misconstrued statute that requires states to seek reimbursement for medicaid expenses when beneficiaries receive medical cost from other sources (like legal settlement for injury).
aka states were never suppose to put liens on property.
as an aside, I know of cases where somebody becomes a ward of the state (for life) ... the state acquires all their assets.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:35:07 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
as an aside ... note the dissenting opinion ... is the one that is
typcially felt as being aligned with plutocrats, special interests, and
the ruling that corporations are people.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/21/120521fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all
medicaid recovery provision was to cover case of medicaid paying medical bills for an injury and then the person getting a large injurty judgement.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:44:43 -0500re:
Opium production in Afghanistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
from above:
In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the
United Nations to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared
that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's
most successful anti-drug campaigns. The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy
farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of
transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy
farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the
world's supply of heroin at the time.[14] The ban was effective only
briefly due to the deposition of the Taliban in 2002.
... snip ...
UNODC monitoring illicit crops
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crop-monitoring/
UN Annual Opium Poppy Survey 2001
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/report_2001-10-16_1.pdf
from above:
Both the Preassessment Survey and the UNDCP Donor Mission observed the
near total success of the ban in eliminating poppy cultivation in
Taleban controlled areas
... snip ...
and from Nov2013
Opium Production in Afghanistan Hits Record High; A sobering United
Nations report details a new surge in the world's largest opium supplier
http://world.time.com/2013/11/13/opium-production-in-afghanistan-hits-record-high/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:32:34 -0500Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
dulles bros used fabricated anti-communist threat as excuse for
overturning gov. in iran ... for one that was more friendly to
being looted by western interests
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#41 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#43 Royal Pardon For Turing
and in the americas ... guatemala was the next country after iran ... the quintessential banama republic, "owned" by united fruit ... much of the united fruit business being handled by the law firm where the dulles bros. spent much of their career. The dulles bros. campaign in Guatemala even being aided by Cardinal Spellman.
book has the agency being able to accomplish some number of covert
missions ... especially when they are on behalf of commercial
interests ... but its intelligence gathering activities were abysmal
failures. loc1872-77:
As it turned out, the image was an illusion. The specter of a powerful
Russia was remote from the reality of a country weakened by war, with a
shattered economy, an overtaxed civilian and military bureaucracy, and
large areas of civil unrest. The illusory image was at least partly due
to a failure of intelligence.... Had there been even the rudiments of an
American intelligence effort in the Soviet Union during the war, or had
we concentrated on intelligence operations against Russia and Eastern
Europe in the postwar lull, the course of the Cold War might have been
different. It was our almost total ignorance of what was going on in the
"denied area" behind the Iron Curtain that helped create the false image
of a super-powerful Soviet Union.
... snip ...
howver it was repeatedly used as part of fabrication to keep
enormous funds flowing into the military-industrial-complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:49:51 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
HCA is largest hospital operator in the country ... the industry has long been primary player in enormous medical inflation.
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America,
loc11313-16:
Yet the stunningly aggressive manner in which KKR and Bain have
literally plundered cash from HCA since the mega-buyout implies just the
opposite. After loading HCA with $28 billion of debt to fund the
original buyout, KKR and Bain have since extracted dividends and stock
buybacks amounting to another $7 billion. These massive payouts to the
sponsors have absorbed every dime of available cash and borrowing
capacity at HCA.
loc11365-69:
THE HCA PRIVATE EQUITY PLUNDER: STATE POLICY RUN AMOK At the end of the
day, the circumstances of the $33 billion HCA buyout are a screaming
indictment of current policies of the state. HCA is the nation's largest
hospital chain, but it thrives only by dint of the $15 billion it
collects each year from Medicaid and Medicare. These revenues are vastly
inflated compared to what HCA would obtain if it had to compete for
patient dollars in an honest consumer-driven market.
loc11398-401:
The estimate at the time was that this sweeping change in the Medicare
reimbursement régime could have reduced its hospital payments by 30
percent and would have struck a mortal blow at high-cost general
hospital chains like HCA. Stated differently, much of the inflated
EBITDA which was absorbing HCA's $2.0 billion annual interest bill would
have been clawed back to the benefit of taxpayers.
... snip ...
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
this is reference to private equity and house flipping ... the
difference is that private equity can make enormous profits even if they
sell a company for less than they paid ... since the original loan (to
buy a company, stays with the bought company). After a company is
plundered and stripped of all its value ... it is frequently faced with
doing everything possible in order to meet the debt payments. Over half
the corporate defaults are companies currently or previously owned by
private equity
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
this also comes into play with privatizing of the gov. by for-profit
companies which may, in turn be loaded with enormous debts because of
private equity LBO, and may cut all sorts of corners attempting to
service its debt load ... recent references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#12 5 Unnerving Documents Showing Ties Between Greenwald, Omidyar & Booz Allen Hamilton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#58 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#58 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#62 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#104 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#39 Spy Chief Says Snowden Took Advantage of "Perfect Storm" of Security Lapses
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:19:51 -0500Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
mentions Ho Chi Min really tried to side with the US ... claim is that current relations with vietnam are what Ho Chi Min wanted in the 50s & 60s ... but dulles bros obsession with eliminating Ho Chi Min, precluded that.
with regard to Cardinal Spellman helping in Guatemala ... quintessential banama repulic ... also references Spellman friends with Batista, Trujullo and Somoza ... which helped with dulles bros supporting dictators and repressive govs.
periodic theme is it is much easier to loot a country when dealing with
a corrupt dictator ... other forms of gov. tend to make it much more
difficult to pillage and loot a country ... which is also central theme
in "economic hit man" ... recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#40 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Broadband pricing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:48:29 -0500Clark G <clarkm.geimsler@ieeemmm.org> writes:
TurboTax Maker Funnels Millions To Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-millions-to-lobby-against-easier-tax-returns/
The Tax Complexity Lobby
http://www.forbes.com/sites/leonardburman/2013/04/15/the-tax-complexity-lobby/
Intuit Lobbying The Government To Make It More Difficult To File Your
Tax Returns
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100124/1836527884.shtml
recent posts mentioning flattax &/or tax complexity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#30 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#57 Royal Pardon For Turing
related posts mentioning tax havens &/or tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON Date: 15 Feb 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
Navy Looking For Some F-35 Relief
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/02/navy-looking-for-some-f-35-relief.html
The Navy has requested a three-year pause in acquisition of the F-35C
-- the carrier-launched variant of the Joint Strike Fighter.
Unfortunately, the Office of the Secretary of Defense has reportedly
blocked the Navy's proposed break in procurement.
... snip ...
Bogdan paints himself as the hero in the F-35 program (60 Minutes)
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/02/bogdan-paints-himself-as-hero-in-f-35.html
and article mentioning stealth design for different radar bands
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=%2Farticle-xml%2FAW_02_17_2014_p33-662743.xml
and reference to ELP's page
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/02/cbs-60-minutes-looks-at-f-35-program.html
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: First 2014 Golden Goose Award to physicist Larry Smarr Date: 15 Feb 2014 Blog: IBM Wild DucksFirst 2014 Golden Goose Award to physicist Larry Smarr
One of the people we had some dealings with. Originally we were
suppose to get $20M to connect all the NSF supercomputer centers. Then
congress cut the budget and some other things happened, but finally
NSF released RFP .... however internal politics prevented us from
bidding. Director of NSF tried to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) ... but that just aggravated the internal politics. some additional
information
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
old email mentioning NSFNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts mentioning NSFNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Not Wild Ducks but Wild Geese - The history behind the story. Date: 15 Feb 2014 Blog: IBM Wild DucksNot Wild Ducks but Wild Geese - The history behind the story.
After seeing Spinney's cover time article ... sometimes behind
paywall, but lives free at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
a co-worker got Spinney's phone number and called him up. Spinney told
him that he really needed to talk to Boyd.
That led to con'ing me in to start sponsoring Boyd's briefings at
IBM. The first time, I tried to do it through the employee education
department. At first they agreed, but as I provided more information
about Boyd, they changed their mind and suggested that I limit the
audience to senior members of competitive analysis departments. They
said that IBM spends a whole lot of money on training managers on how
to manage (aka "manipulate") employees ... and it wouldn't be in the
best interest of the corporation to expose general employees to Boyd's
briefings. As an aside, UCSD is sponsoring upcoming Boyd Innovation
conference
http://boydbusinessinnovationconference.com/
For other drift, I was active with internal datacenters, customers,
IBM user group SHARE, etc. TYMSHARE had started providing their
vm370/cms online computer conferencing to SHARE for free in Aug1976
... archives here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
I arranged to get monthly distribution of all VMSHARE files from TYMSHARE to put up on the internal network and machines (including the world-wide, sales & marketing HONE system). The biggest problem I had was corporate lawyers not wanting IBM employees contaminated by exposure to customer information.
similar to Watson's "respect for individual" is Boyd's "trinity" (also
quoted at the UCSD Boyd innovation conference):
Why Boyd's trinity -People, Ideas, Hardware; in THAT order- is vital
to creating a culture of employee engagement, loyalty, and trust that
helps reducing the incidence of costly mistakes.
... snip ...
The issue is that so much of MICC puts "money" first (ever increasing quarterly profits) which frequently translates into reversing Boyd's trinity and placing hardware first.
posts mentioning military-industrial-complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive' Date: 15 Feb 2014 Blog: IBMersIBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
"Slaughter House": First Person Accounts Of How IBM Just Fired
Thousands Of Workers Across India
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-12/slaughter-house-first-person-accounts-how-ibm-just-fired-thousands-workers-across-in
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1876891-ibm-shrinks-analysts-hate-it
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
another area is employee retirement
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
from this recent book
about lots of details about different ways corporations came up with
for raiding pension plans
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
and over in "IBM Wild Ducks" linkedin group ... in this discussion
http://lnkd.in/bkwkdzT
there is repeated mentioning of Watson's "respect for individual".
I mention that I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM and Boyd had
"trinity" ... also mentioned in upcoming Boyd Innovation conference
being sponsored by UCSD business school
http://boydbusinessinnovationconference.com/
Why Boyd's trinity -People, Ideas, Hardware; in THAT order- is
vital to creating a culture of employee engagement, loyalty, and trust
that helps reducing the incidence of costly mistakes.
one of Boyd's issues was that so much of MICC put "money" first (ever
increasing quarterly profits) which frequently translates into
reversing Boyd's trinity and placing hardware first
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America Date: 15 Feb 2014 Blog: IBMersMaximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
IBM's core business is maximizing executive compensation ... which translates into whatever the executive compensation plan calls for.
reference to corporate governance doesn't ever mention maximizing
shareholder value (... but tends to be a rallying cry behind which
maximizing executive compensation occurs)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/why-the-maximizing-shareholder-value-theory-of-corporate-governance-is-bogus.html
from above:
If you review any of the numerous guides prepared for directors of
corporations prepared by law firms and other experts, you won't find a
stipulation for them to maximize shareholder value on the list of
things they are supposed to do. It's not a legal requirement. And
there is a good reason for that.
Directors and officers, broadly speaking, have a duty of care and duty
of loyalty to the corporation. From that flow more specific
obligations under Federal and state law. But notice: those
responsibilities are to the corporation, not to shareholders in
particular.
... snip ...
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America" pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
from above:
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge;
Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
another area is employee retirement
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
lots of details about different ways corporations came up with for
raiding pension plans
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K
however, that doesn't stop a multinational company from raiding
pension plans in countries where it is allowed to ... from Retirement
Heist:
IBM couldn't just pull the plug on the subsidy, because pension law
doesn't allow a company to take away a benefit a person has already
earned or take away a pension right or feature the company has
granted. "So we had to design something different," Sauvigne
said. Enter Louis V. Gerstner Jr., IBM's new president. He'd headed
RJR Nabisco in 1993 when it faced a similar dilemma: how to reduce
pensions and remove the retirement subsidy without obviously violating
the law or provoking an employee backlash. Gerstner and IBM turned to
Watson Wyatt, the same consulting firm that had helped Nabisco solve
its pension problem.
... snip ...
Gerstner "wins" competition to be next CEO of AMEX. The looser leaves and takes his protege Jamie Dimon. AMEX is in competition with KKR to do private equity take-over of RJR, KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble with RJR and hires Gerstner away to do turn around of RJR. Then the IBM board hires Gerstner away to resurrect IBM and reverse the planned breakup (IBM had been reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for the breakup). About the same time that IBM goes into the red, AMEX spins off much of its dataprocessing in the largest IPO (until that time) as Firstdata.
posts mentioning gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
Looser in competition for next CEO of AMEX (and protoge Dimon) make a number of acquisitions eventually taking over Citibank in violation Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall ... enabling too big to fail. Dimon then goes on to be head of another too big to fail.
posts mentioning Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Gerstner leaves IBM and goes on to head up another private equity
company Carlyle. Since the start of the century, private equity
business has somewhat morphed, they borrow money to buy a company,
then put the loan on that company's books ... private equity take-over
companies are under intense pressure to do whatever is necessary to
service the debt (joke about analogy to house flipping, except company
can be sold for less than paid and still make enormous profit
... since they don't have to pay off the loan used to buy the
company). Over half corporate defaults are by companies currently or
formally owned by private equity
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
One of Carlyle private-equity take-overs is BAH ... which is at the
center of the intelligence news. Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden; The firm that
formerly employed both the director of national intelligence and the
NSA whistleblower merits closer scrutiny
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/edward-snowden-investigate-booz-allen
... and bought by Carlyle
In the 90s, Firstdata merges with First Financial, picking up Western Union (but has to spinoff Moneygram). In middle of last decade, the enormous increase in illegal workers sending paychecks home, WU grows to be half of Firstdata bottom line. Firstdata corporate hdqtrs is lopped off and WU is spun-off in IPO ... and KKR does private-equity takeover of the remainder in the largest reverse-IPO up until that time (15yrs after Firstdata was the largest IPO). Disclaimer: I'm doing stint as chief scientist at Firstdata attached to corporate hdqtrs and am collateral damage as part of eliminating Firstdata corporate hdqtrs.
recent cartoon: What does creating share holder value lead us to?
http://johnhively.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/what-does-creating-share-holder-value-lead-us-to/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computer Architecture Manuals - tools for writing and maintaining- state of the art? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 10:06:15 -0500anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
One of the first major corporate documents done in script was the
360/370 architecture "REDBOOK" ... which had engineering and
architecture notes, altneratives, justifications ... intermixed with the
feature descriptions. Command line option would format the full "redbook"
or just the "principles of operation" subset:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/
about the time that GML was morphing into SGML ... the Los Gatos VLSI group was working on trying to build common repository for chip logic and physical layout ... with fine granularity connection between the two.
posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
posts mentioning gml, sgml, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 11:20:51 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
real estate companies had pushed the idea that owning your own home was safe investment ... the value never went down ... but the bubble collapse punctured that myth ... and contributed to resistance to buying homes ... and increasing percentage of renting.
this provided opening for private equity companies to move into the market buying up large numbers of distressed homes for rental properties and at the same time jacking up the rents.
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
some articles private equity buying up homes for rental market
Private Equity in Rental Housing Market: Bad for Tenants
http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954160,00.html
Wall Street Is My Landlord; Private Equity's Instant Rental Empire
http://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/rent-wall-street-is-my-landlord/
Private Equity's Foreclosures for Rentals Net 8%: Mortgages
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-13/private-equity-buying-u-s-foreclosures-for-hot-rentals-net-8-mortgages.html
Deutsche Bank Leading Wall Street Rental Loans: Mortgages
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-06-17/wall-street-lending-rises-for-private-equity-rentals-mortgages
Major Private Equity and Hedge Funds taking over Rental Market!!!
http://www.prlog.org/12244426-major-private-equity-and-hedge-funds-taking-over-rental-market.html
and then there is this ... attempting to securitize retnals ... in the way they securitized mortgages and blew up the housing market
Congressmen Call for Hearings on Risks of Rental Securtizations
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/congressmen-probing-private-equity-landlords-squeeze-tenants-risks-rental-securtizations.html
recent too big to fail still in news about their fraudulent mortgage practices
$86B And Counting: 2014 May Be Wall Street's Worst Year Yet For Mortgage
Trouble
http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/12/11/85b-and-counting-2014-may-be-wall-streets-worst-year-yet-for-mortgage-trouble/
US seeks $2.1bn from BofA over mortgage fraud
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f4ef2adc-89b9-11e3-abc4-00144feab7de,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ff4ef2adc-89b9-11e3-abc4-00144feab7de.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&siteedition=uk&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2014%2F01%2Flinks-13114.html
New York bank regulator stops Ocwen-Wells Fargo deal
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/06/wellsfargo-ocwen-mortgages-idUSL2N0LB1DQ20140206
Judge puts approval of BofA's $8.5 billion mortgage settlement on hold
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/us-bankofamerica-mbs-settlement-idUSBREA1402A20140205
Mortgage Crisis Watch
http://www.mortgagecrisiswatch.com/too-big-to-fail/
posts mentioning too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to
jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:11:31 -0500re:
... and what private equity is doing to the rental market goes along
with some of the stuff that they've done for the health care market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#48 Roayl Pardon For Turing
as well as many other businesses and markets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: How Obama Officials Cried "Terrorism" to Cover Up a Paperwork Error Date: 16 Feb 2014 Blog: Google+re:
How Obama Officials Cried "Terrorism" to Cover Up a Paperwork Error
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup
Something similar but different is accounted for with a case of Maryland state police and blamed on RDBMS & SQL having relatively RIGID data structure. The official FBI RDBMS had provided for something like 14 classifications ... the Maryland state police were monitoring non-violent protestors and wanted to add them to the FBI but there was no exact match for non-violent protestors.
older reference to above
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ibmconnect.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Bloat Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:22:38 -0500Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.NOSPAM.com> writes:
in the 80s, some of the cost/trade-offs was shifting .... disk price/bit significantly dropped mitigating the system/r (rdbms) doubling in disk space ... and system real storage sizes significantly increased allowing caching of indexes ... mitigating disk i/os for reading index records. at the same time ... the explosion in dataprocessing was making DBMS support and administration scarce and more expensive (hardware costs declining and becoming much more available ... while people time was becoming more expensive and amount of people time wasn't keeping up with increase in number of systems).
4300s sold into the mid-range market in similar numbers to vax machines ... for small sized orders ... big difference were corporations ordering hundreds of 4300s and placing them out in departmental areas (sort of the leading edge of distributed computing tsunami).
At the time MVS systems typically required 20-30 support people and IMS possibly having similar requirements. Explosion of distributed systems (and RDBMS) required significant reduction of support staff ... instead of tens of people per system, needing to be able to manage tens of systems (including rdbms) per person.
old email from jim gray about BofA ... early distributed system/r
customer with 60 distributed 4341s and chiding me about needing to
improve distributed vm/4341 support.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email800311b
other old email mentioning 4300s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
past posts mentioning system/r
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
this is decade of vax sales, sliced&diced by year, model, us/non-us ...
by the mid-80s the mid-range market was starting to move to workstations
and larger PCs.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
the 4361/4381s follow-on to 4331/4341 was expecting to see similar explosion in sales (as 4331/4341) ... but as in the vax numbers ... the market was shifting.
in the 80s, the high-end ckd dasd was 3380s ... but there was only fba (3370s) for the mid-range market ... and able to deploy out into all the departmental areas. since MVS was wedded to CKD ... that precluded MVS from the huge explosion in departmental sales. They eventually came out with CKD simulation on 3370 as 3375 .... however, the enormous people resources required to support MVS didn't scale to huge number of distributed systems.
note that descendent of MVS is still tightly bound to CKD disk ... even though real CKD disks haven't been manufactured for decades.
as an aside, arpanet/internet big switch to internetworking protocol was
1jan1983 ... at the time when there were approx. 100 networking node
IMPs and 250-some connected hosts. At the same time, the internal
network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes in large part because of the
explosion in number of vm/4341s systems ... past posts mentioning
internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
now this is recent post about better than 100-fold bloat with respect to
electronic commerce (both processing time and payload)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
past posts on the bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#bloat
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:52:57 -0500Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
one of the areas that 4341 beat vax ... gap closed for 780 with floating point hardware accelerator. I did some bencharking for national lab when it was looking at getting a compute farm of 70 4341s:
158 3031 4341
Rain 45.64 secs 37.03 secs 36.21 secs
Rain4 43.90 secs 36.61 secs 36.13 secs
also times approx;
145 168-3 91
145 secs. 9.1 secs 6.77 secs
rain/rain4 was from Lawrence Radiation lab ... and ran on cdc6600 in
35.77 secs.
....
more than decade before working with LLNL on rs/6000 cluster scale-up (eventually turns into "supercomputer").
from:
http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/whetstone.htm
780 MWIPS DP: w/o FPA .253, w/FPA .760
750 MWIPS DP: .510
4341-1 MWIPS DP: .770
other past posts mentioning doing rain/rain4 benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#0 Is a VAX a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#67 Pentium 4 Prefetch engine?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#0 Microcode?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#75 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#7 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#12 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#19 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#22 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#4 misc. old benchmarks (4331 & 11/750)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#68 IBM zSeries in HPC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#25 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#31 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#21 moving on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#54 mainframe performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#37 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#65 Comparing YOUR Computer with Supercomputers of the Past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#40 IBM Watson's Ancestors: A Look at Supercomputers of the Past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#38 DEC/PDP minicomputers for business in 1968?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Optimization, CPU time, and related issues Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Feb 2014 17:41:57 -0800bernd.oppolzer@T-ONLINE.DE (Bernd Oppolzer) writes:
one of the major areas of throughput improvement is superscalar and out-of-order execution (basically hardware equivalent of multitasking/multiprogramming to compensate for long delays for memory access on cache misses ... aka latency to memory measured in processor cycles is on the order of 360 disk acces time measured in 360 processor cycles). this has been common in some other architectures for decades ... but recently shows up in transition from z10 to z196 (on the order of half the per processor thruput increase) and additional throughput in z196 to ec12.
big problem for out-of-order execution is conditional branches (or any operation dependent on condition). technology approach is branch prediction (attempts to predict which way condition will go) and speculative execution (go ahead and perform conditional operations ... and if the condition turns out not to perform those operations ... undo/abrogate).
Strictly serialized instruction execution would have each additional instruction resulting in incremental elapsed time. for superscaler out-of-order execution, unconditional branch may be little different than straight sequential execution (modulo increased probability of cache miss). Any conditional operation becomes an issue how early is the condition determined. Some compiler technologies attempt to place condition setting as early as possible with as many (non condition setting) instructions as possible between when the condition is set and when the conditional operation occurs.
there is also register "renaming" where there are more real hardware registers than addressable registers ... speculative execution can proceed concurrently on different possible conditional paths ... with possible different values for the same (addressable) registers. also speculative execution store operation have to be held in abeyance until it is known whether it is the valid path or they are to be discarded.
there is theory work on "code density" ... especially for smaller machines with smaller instruction caches ... improvements in instruction architecture that signifcantly reduces the total bytes of instructions for a program.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:38:41 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
earlier ... there were IBM external 2938 & 3838 "array processor" boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#34 GA24-3639
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#74 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#9 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#32 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
... and at the time of the 3090vf ... there were floating point systems boxes.
topic drift, in 1980, I had done channel extender support for STL when
they moved 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg ... and it
allowed "local channel attached" 3270s connected back to the STL
datacenter ... much better than alternatives. Then I worked with guy in
Boulder to do something similar for an IMS support group there. This
person then took job running Clementi's E&S center in kingston ... that
had 3090 with vector facility ... but also a large number of floating
point system boxes. recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#4 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#5 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
We worked together putting in a long-haul T1 link into his datacenter
... similar to what we were proposing for the NSF supercomputer centers.
old email mentioning work related to interconnect for NSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
recent posts mentioning (4341 & vax) floating point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#61 I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?)
other 3090vf references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#5 TF-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#61 TF-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#70 CM-5 Thinking Machines, Supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#68 IBM zSeries in HPC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#10 RISCs too close to hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#20 simd for 390(or z990)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#45 Just another example of mainframe costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#46 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#55 IBM Z6 processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#51 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#68 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#72 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#73 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#74 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#1 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#32 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#33 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#41 A History Of Mainframe Computing
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Optimization, CPU time, and related issues Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Feb 2014 10:56:31 -0800re:
aka the internal operation of the machine ... and the execution elements actually being managed ... are becoming less & less directly related to the external instruction architecture.
for instance, risk architectures have had significant performance advantage over i86 (having pioneered super scalar, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, speculative execution, etc) ... however for the last several generations of server chips ... i86 has gone to hardware layer that translates i86 instructions into risk micro-ops for execution ... which has largely mitigated the difference in throughput between risk and i86. the more sophisticated compilers will include some level of model of the internal execution characteristics as part of code generation.
another feature common in i86 has been hypertheading ... in the 70s, I got sucked into a proposal to do hyperthreading for the 370/195 (that never shipped) ... basically feeding the execution units from two separate (simulated multiprocessor) i-streams. The issue was that 370/195 was out-of-order, superscaler, and pipelined ... but conditional operations stalled the processing (no branch prediction or speculative execution). The issue was that peak 370/195 was around 10mips ... but tended to require very careful coding ... most codes with conditional branching only ran around 5mips. the idea was that two i-streams, each running around 5mips throughput (because of conditional branch processing stalling the machine) ... it would achieve 10mips aggregate throughput.
360/91, 360/195, 370/195 discussed here
http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/pan05.htm
the above talks about cycle time of 91, 95, & 195 ... basically the same 750ns memory used in the 65 & 75. Originally the 360/60 and 360/70 was going to have 1ms memory ... but it was upgraded to 750ns ... and the model numbers changed.
65/(67) & 75 did double word fetch at a time ... for the i-stream it kept the full 8-bytes around ... so it didn't require a separate memory fetch for every instructions. the timing values for the machines include instruction execution and other data/store fetch memory times plus a prorated amount for instruction fetch (assuming execution normally proceeds sequentially) ... aka a 2byte instruction includes 1/4th of 750ns instruction fetch, a 4byte instruction includes 1/2th of 750ns instruction fetch, a 6byte instsruction includes 3/4th of 750ns instruction fetch.
the hypertheading gimmick had been proposed in the ACS-360 effort
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
see "Sidebar: Multithreading" in above ... which is followed by another sidebar about acs-360 features that finally show up 20yrs later in es/9000. Earlier in the article Amdahl talks about IBM executives shutting down the effort because it would advance the computing state-of-the-art too fast and they would loose control of the market.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive' Date: 18 Feb 2014 Blog: IBMersre:
as an aside, UCSD Business School Boyd innovation conference will have
Chuck Spinney and some number of the other Boyd acolytes (I won't be
able to make). Also not there will be Burton (who did make last falls
Boyd conference at quantico) ... who wrote about some of his
experiences ... and HBO turned into a movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars#Historical_background
Note that in late 90s, congress had GAO do a study/report about paying workers below living wage cost in gov. services. It found on avg. that it cost gov. services an avg. of $10K/year/worker (basically a form of gov subsidy to those industries paying below living wage). I don't know if it wasn't the answer congress was looking for ... but I haven't been able to find an update or more recent version of study/report. The closest are recent news reports that the avg. Walmart store costs an extra million dollars in gov. services (for walmart employees because of the below living wage, again an indirect form of gov. subsidy).
IBM to cut 15,000
http://www.thehindu.com/business/ibm-to-cut-15000-jobs-globally-layoffs-start-from-bangalore/article5689540.ece
late 70 transferred from the science center to san jose research. early 80s wrote an open door (after being with the company for over a decade) that I was vastly underpaid. I got back detailed written response from head of HR that after a review of my complete employee history, I was being paid exactly what I was suppose to. I took the original opendoor, the written response and wrote a cover letter that I was being asked to interview new hires for a new department that I was suppose to provide technical direction for and they were being offered 30% more than I was making. I never got any acknowledgment, but a couple weeks later I got a 30% raise ... now equal to the starting offers being made to the new hires (I was interviewing). the company will say whatever it wants to, several times in my career people have had to remind me that business ethics is an oxymoron.
the open door was about the time they told the corporate executive committee about online computer conferencing (and the internal network) which I was being blamed for ... folklore was that 5of6 wanted to fire me ... one of the problems was a lot of the company datacenters ran production operating systems that I built and supported (including world-wide sales and marketing HONE systems
posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
posts mentioning HONE system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
posts mentioning online computer conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
posts mentioning the internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
posts mentioning the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
posts mentioning opendoor and then 30% raise
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#74 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#28 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
posts mentioning GAO study ... effectively gov. subsidizes
corporations that pay substandard wages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#18 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#24 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#2 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON Date: 18 Feb 2014 Blog: Facebookre:
Is The F-35 Worth It? -- 60 Minutes/CBS
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/02/60-minutes-looks-at-f-35-program.html
"The fact that the supporters of the F-35 program had to invite 60
Minutes for a puff piece tells me that there is a problem."
... snip ...
Many probably thought this way on December 6, 1941
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/02/many-probably-thought-this-way-on.html
pieces of F35 discussion someplace else on Facebook
Note there were reports that middle of last decade that a lot of
F22/stealth (and f35) design specs leaked out to possible
adversaries/competitors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor
start mid-80s, first flew 97, "introduced" 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor#Upgrades
Above mentions new durable stealth coating. Other (public) reports is that stealth coating is a major maintenance issue because it can be difficult to determine whether it has been done correctly.
One of the issues is the record for both F22&F35 is 20yrs or more development process. Resetting to zero leaves enormous gap. However, at Naval Academy conference one comment was that in the previous year, over 100 different UAVs had gone from idea to deployment
1990 the US auto industry had the "C4" task force to look at completely remaking themselves in the face of foreign competition ... and because they were planning on making heavy use of technology ... they had technology vendors present. One of the points was that standard US process was 7-8yrs elapsed from idea to rolling off the line. In the previous decade, the competition had cut that in half ... and were in process of cutting it in half again. I would chide the (IBM) mainframe brethren (offline) how could they expect to contribute when they had the exact same problem.
posts menition auto.c4 taskforce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
Boyd's briefings on (faster) OODA-loop ... I was able to use in the (auto) C4 taskforce. Boyd's discussion of fighter pilot manual and characterizing plane operational characteristics ... was to overlap yours with adversary and then train to operate in the region where you have the advantage. The current 20+yr DOD cycle is non-competitive especially when lots of the work appears to be constantly leaking to competitors. As aside, the lack of better observation is also one of the criticisms of the f35 and would contribute to selection of mission profiles.
Note differentiating factor is increasingly being dominated by electronics and software ... and china is rapidly passing US is several areas ... they have the #1 spot on the supercomputer list that is at least twice as fast as any other. Several have raised the issue that there is becoming increasing problem with US defense electronic components being built in China.
90s, over half of adv technical degrees at cal univ were to students born on the other side of the Pacific ... Similar ratio working in silicon valley responsible for hi-tech/internet ... although since then some number returning home
Boyd, Eisenhower, Chuck Spinney, etc warnings about MICC is they make money out of it
posts mentioning boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
My analogy with IBM in the 70s was approaching black hole ... then ran across article that black holes can evaporate. Is this the DOD analogy
Reminds me of some discussions in IBM
They say no problems
Somebody says there are problems,
They say we have to have a balanced discussion
I got a lot of that in the 70s ridiculing the failing FS effort
(nearly took down the company) credited with change in corporate
culture from open debate to make no waves and sycophants ... because
top executives had careers tied to the effort
fairly typical of MICC would appear to be Success of Failure
scenario (i.e. directors during the period are all from MICC/armed
services)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
where whistleblower reported to responsible people in congress ... and
then was charged with the same offenses as recent incident ... even
though there was no public discloser of classified information
... charges only relatively recently dismissed. only threat would seem
to be to senior bureaucrats careers ... again similar to the IBM FS
fiasco (From Ferguson/Morris Computer Wars):
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
even Hugh Laurie works the extreme MICC self-serving characterization into his novel and typically how lopsided the sides in any disagreement. Boyd tells of spending 18m on Spinney's 1983 Time article making sure everything was covered in writing ... even though it involved no classified information ... anticipating that the SECDEF was going to try and get Spinney jailed (which he tried). Boyd would claim that SECDEF then created new information classification "NOSPIN" ... unclassified but not to be provided to Spinney.
MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
re: Success Of Failure, sometime last decade, before ic-arda
https://web.archive.org/web/20050828171703/http://www.ic-arda.org/about_arda.htm
turns into iarpa
http://www.iarpa.gov/whatis.html
we got a call asking us to respond to unclassified BAA, it was the last day and nobody else had responded ... it basically said that none of the tools they had did the job. We wrote a response and then had some meetings that we could do what was needed ... and then nothing. Later we were told that senior management had told the analyst (responsible for the BAA) that he hadn't sufficiently proven to them that what they currently had didn't work. Somewhat baffling was why they allowed him to release the BAA at all ... even more baffling is how the Success of Failure events unfolded
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
another from feral jundi:
The New F-35 Fighter Jet Can Be Taken Down Without A Bullet Ever Being
Fired
http://www.businessinsider.com/f-35-hackers-2014-2
url refs from above:
Can the U.S. military's new jet fighter be hacked?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-the-f-35-be-hacked/
New Tests Find Significant Cracking In The F-35
http://www.businessinsider.com/tests-find-cracking-in-the-new-f-35-2014-1
AIR FORCE: 'If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant'
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-cenciotti-the-f-35-fleet-will-be-irrelevant-2014-2
PENTAGON: The F-35 Program Still Has 'Unacceptable' Problems
http://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-report-rips-f-35-program-2014-1
Hugh Laurie's novel has account of the venal, corrupt, self-serving MICC ... but from the annals of truth is stranger than fiction ... there is Boyd's story of the F16. After revamping the F15 design, he is working on what will become the F16 and using enormous amounts of supercomputer time (for the design, more cyber/software is increasingly becoming major differentiation). The head of the company producing the F15 goes to the sec. of the air force and demands Boyd be thrown in Leavenworth for the rest of his life. The logic is Boyd isn't authorized to work on the F16, so his supercomputer use is unauthorized; therefor charge him with theft of millions of dollars of gov. property. Fortunately Boyd has anticipated how corrupt the MICC can be and left almost no trail of his supercomputer use (also helps explain how careful he was leading up to the '83 time cover spinney article). Similarly in the Success of Failure scenario, the agency makes the same charges against the whistleblower as in the most recent case ... even though that whistleblower has only reported the violations to congress and there is no release of classified information.
Journalism Fail: All the Sources in Stealth Jet Story Are PAID to Praise the Plane
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/3914aaf3ce5d
Here's What 60 Minutes Didn't Tell You About the F-35
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/02/heres-what-60-minutes-didnt-tell-you-about-the-f-35.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:09:02 -0500"Lanto J." <lantoj78@gmail.com> writes:
securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. in the late 90s we were asked to look at improving the integrity of the supporting documents used in securitized mortgages as countermeasure.
however, when they found that they could pay rating agencies for
triple-A rating (even when rating agencies realized they weren't worth
triple-A) the found that they could do no-documentation loans. triple-A
trumps supporting documents and with no supporting documents, there is
no long any need for supporting document integrity. With triple-A they
no longer had to care about anything ... except how fast they could turn
over the mortgages and how big they could make the mortgages (triple-a
trumps down-payments, documentation, loan quality and borrower's
qualifications). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
the other thing mentioned in the post was that Citi had been the large player in the mortgage market ... but then realized that adjustable rate mortgages could take down the institution ... they unloaded their mortgage portfolio and got out of the business ... and still almost went under ... requiring a private bailout to stay in business.
roll forwarded to last decade ... citi has been taken over ... in
violation of glass-steagall (they lobby washington for repeal of
glass-steagall enabling too big to fail) and all institutional
knowledge about problems with adjustable rate mortgages has been
lost. End of 2008, the four too big to fail are still carrying
$5.2T in triple-A rated toxic CDOs
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
out of the over $27T done during the bubble
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
and Citi is carry the most of the $5.2T (of the four at the end of 2008) and also requires the biggest bailout to continue operating.
posts mentioning Pecora hearings and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Economists and our responsibilities to society Date: 18 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookEconomists and our responsibilities to society
wallstreet capturing economists, similar to capture of regulatory agencies, as the economic mess was hitting the fan there was recommendation to wallstreet to tieup/capture as many economists as possible for the future hearings and studies about what to do about the mess.
"Inside Job"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_%28film%29#Part_IV:_Accountability
Inside Job. The documentary. Online. For free.
http://blaqswans.org/2013/07/inside-job/
Inside Job
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/inside_job_2010/
Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts,
Ample Rewards
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
loc72-74:
Only through having been caught so blatantly with their noses in the
troughs (e.g. the 2011 Academy Award-winning documentary
Inside Job) has the American Economic Association finally been forced
to adopt an ethical code, and that code is weak and incomplete
compared with other disciplines.
loc957-62:
The AEA was pushed into action by a damning research report into the
systematic concealment of conflicts of interest by top financial
economists and by a letter from three hundred economists who urged the
association to come up with a code of ethics. Epstein and
Carrick-Hagenbarth (2010) have shown that many highly influential
financial economists in the US hold roles in the private financial
sector, from serving on boards to owning the respective
companies. Many of these have written on financial regulation in the
media or in scholarly papers. Very rarely have they disclosed their
affiliations to the financial industry in their writing or in their
testimony in front of Congress, thus concealing a potential conflict
of interest.
... snip ..
Note the book starts out with cases of major universities firing and blackballing economists over the years, that happen to write papers that the rich&powerful found objectionable
other
Glenn Hubbard, Leading Academic and Mitt Romney Advisor, Took 1200 an
Hour to Be Countrywide's Expert Witness (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140504010711/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/glenn-hubbard-leading-academic-and-mitt-romney-advisor-took-1200-an-hour-to-be-countrywides-expert-witness-20121220?print=true
The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street; Academics get paid by
financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What's
wrong with this picture?
http://www.thenation.com/article/176809/scholars-who-shill-wall-street
Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/business/academics-who-defend-wall-st-reap-reward.html
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive' Date: 18 Feb 2014 Blog: IBMersre:
Much of what goes on is manipulating the numbers to meet objectives in the c-suite compensation plans ... older article about what goes on.
HBR Blows The Lid Off C-Suite Over-Compensation
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/02/22/hbr-blows-the-lid-off-c-suite-over-compensation/
There is old tale about after the company goes into the red and is being reorganized into the 13 baby blues in preparation for breaking up (and before Gerstner is brought in to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company), there are lots of complaints that the c-suite is spending all its time manipulating the books and moving expenses from the following year into the current year (and paying no attention to running the company). The later explanation is that the executives get no bonuses for the current year ... because it has gone into the red ... but moving expenses from the following year into the current year allows the following year to show a slight profit. The claim is that the way the executive bonus plan is written, it is percent change ... which results in the following year bonus that is more than twice as large than any previous bonus paid (in effect, the executives are rewarded for taking the company into the red).
Trivia: long ago and far away ... my wife was brought in to be chief architect for Amadeus (new euro res system based off the old eastern airlines system/one). One of the first things is deciding interconnect and she goes with x.25. However the SNA forces are lobbying hard behind the scenes and quickly get her replaced. It doesn't do any good ... Amadeus goes with x.25 anyway.
posts mentioning gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts mentioning amadeus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#49 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#50 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#76 Other oddball IBM System 360's ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#67 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#47 What makes a mainframe a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#6 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#7 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#27 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#23 Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#29 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#22 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#4 How Many 360/195s and 370/195s were shipped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#9 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#14 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#19 Pennsylvania Railroad ticket fax service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#52 US Air computers delay psgrs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#12 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#72 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#59 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#45 64 gig memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#53 Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#34 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#41 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technologies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#33 IBM touts encryption innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#55 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#59 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#23 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#29 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#16 Sabre Talk Information?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#17 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOS or Windows, doesn't matter)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#41 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#14 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#74 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#8 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#9 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#52 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#5 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#41 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#13 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:46:04 -0500Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
the came the articles calling for business independence for risk managers ... and lots of risk manager/department stories about how the business executives forced them to fiddle the inputs until the business executives got the desired outputs ... aka GIGO. The stories about blaming the risk models was pure misdirection and obfuscation.
they have come up with a new way of gaming the system ... the too big to fail have been "fined" billions for their fraudulent mortgage practices with the money going into fund to compensate their victims. The recent story is companies hired to manage the fund and disperse the funds ... are actually run by some of the same people ... pocketing enormous fees for running the operation ... and people that have been harmed to the tune of hundreds of thousands ... getting a couple hundred dollar check.
another issue is having done all these no-documentation mortgages ... states require several legal documents in order to perform a foreclosure ... which they started illegally fabricated ... and when the illegal document mills were exposed, the government turns a blind eye.
some past posts mentioning MERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#24 What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#69 Moody's hints at move that could be catastrophic for US debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#40 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#23 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#22 Is BitCoin a triple entry system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#13 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#21 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#24 rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#16 Feds Launch Probe Into S&P Mortgage Rates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#67 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#38 The Death of MERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#48 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#49 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#40 Who Increased the Debt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#69 Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#8 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#41 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#79 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#51 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#55 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#56 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#26 Why bankers rule the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#45 Nate Silver is Not Just Wrong, but Maliciously Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#39 The Alchemy of Securitization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#32 REFRPROT History Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#66 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#44 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#28 Royal Pardon for credit unions
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: assembler Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 19 Feb 2014 07:51:14 -0800dasdbill2@COMCAST.NET (DASDBILL2) writes:
as aside, 360/67 was modified 360/65 with addition of hardware virtual memory ... originally intended for tss/360 ... tss/360 never did reach production quality ... so a lot of places would run them in straight 360/65 mode. However univ of michigan wrote their own virtual memory operating system, MTS. Stanford also wrote their own virtual memory system Orvyl (where Wylbur editor was originally implemented).
and of course the science center did virtual machine cp67 ... some
past posts mentioning cp67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
actually the science center got a 360/40, made their own hardware modifications to support virtual memory and did cp40 .... pending availability of 360/67 (at which time, cp40 morphs into cp67).
even tho MVT move to virtual memory ... initially SVS (later morphs into MVS), was planning on doing little actual paging ... their design of page replacement algorithm was still important ... and I got into a big argument that they had done some things very wrong. It wasn't until well into MVS product cycle that somebody realized how wrong ... it turns out that they were selecting non-changed, high-use, shared linkpack pages for replacement ahead of selecting lower use, private, changed data pages.
An example of horrible use of storage locality was the initial port of APL\360 to CP67/CMS for CMS\APL. In the APL\360 environment, workspaces were typically 16kbytes (or sometimes 32kbytes) and a complete workspace was swapped as whole unit ... so locality of use played little importance. However, CMS\APL had workspace was large as virtual memory. The original APL\360 implementation would allocate a new storage location for every assignment ... and when it completely exhausted workspace ... it would do garbage collection and collect all data to contiguous area of storage ... and then start again. Even a small APL program could repeatedly touch every available workspace storage location. In the APl\360 swapping environment this was hardly noticed. In CMS\APL demand page environment with workspace as large as virtual memory ... as "small" APL program would through the machine into "page-thrashing". As part of the creation of CMS\APL ... the APL\360 storage management had to be redone to make it extremely virtual memory friendly.
trivia ... CMS\APL with large-sized workspaces and also introduced an API for accessing system services ... like file read/write ... allowed use for real-world applications. One such was Armonk business planners used it for modeling IBM business .... loading the most valuable of corporate assets (all the customer details) on the science center cp67 and using it remotely from Armonk. This also required some amount of security ... since the science center machine was also in use by students&staff at various Cambridge/Boston educational institutions.
Being able to do real-world applications in CMS\APL gave rise to the
HONE system for world-wide sales&marketing support ... some past
posts mentioning HONE &/or APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
the science center was also on the forefront of performance modeling, performance monitoring, workload & system profiling, etc ... some of which later evolves into things like capacity planning.
One of the tools started out using the REDCAP full instruction trace program from POK to capture all instruction/storage fetch&store refs and model it for things like locality of reference in virtual memory paged environment. This was used as aid in moving apl\360 to cms\apl. As it got more sophisticated, it was used for semi-automated program reorganization for improved operation in virtual memory environment. Several of the large OS/360 application development groups also started using it as part of their move from MVT real-storage to virtual memory environment (also was used for simple "hot-spot" monitoring). This was eventually released to customers as "VS/Repack" product.
A lot of the work that was done in the 60s and 70s for optimizing throughput in virtual memory environment is now applicable for optimizing throughput in processor cache environment.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:21:47 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
old post with various super & super-mini articles product nos from late
80s & early 90s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#70 CM-5 Thinking Machines, Supercomputers
above has quote about how clusters caught IBM by "suprise" ... this also
mentions move to clusters (as well as lots of other details)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
i've claimed recently that it started (at least) with things like LLNL
looking at compute farm of 70 4341s in the late 70s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#61 I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?)
also working with NSF on linking together the NSF supercomputer centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#3 We need to talk about TED
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#85 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
I've periodically mentioned having worked on cluster scale-up for ha/cmp
with both national labs and rdbms vendors ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
and within hrs of last email in the that list ... it was transferred, we
were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors
... and it was announced as supercomputer for numerical intensive and
scientific only ... reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
and then the caught by surpise comment (repeat)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
predating medusa ... this is email about earlier processor
cluster work ... and the same time as working on linking
NSF supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850314
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email850315
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email870315
other ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
being told can't work on anything with more than four processors is major motivation in deciding to leave later that year.
I had mentioned Clementi's E&S center with lots of floating point system boxes ... there was also an other organization in kingston that was supposed to be developing a supercomputer (the group was also providing funds for steve chen's supercomputer company ... chen had previously done ymp at cray). End of Oct1991, a senior VP retires and all the projects he was supporting are audited (including the kingston supercomputer group). After that, they start to scour the company looking for technology that could be used for supercomputer.
We possibly wouldn't have had as much problems if we had stuck to just
working with the national labs on computational intensive stuff ... but
the work on RDBMS scale-up was a threat to the commercial mainframe
business group. Reference to "medusa" scale-up for RDBMS in this
post about Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
trivia ... the wiki article mentions 1970s, Cray-1 used in aerodynamic
research. I met Boyd in the early 80s and use to sponsor his briefings
at IBM. When he became head of lightweight fighter plane design at the
pentagon ... he reworked the F15 design, significantly improving it
... and then started work on the F16. The head of the F15 company went
to the sec. of airforce and asked for Boyd to be thrown in Leavenworth
for the rest of his life because there was no authorization to do the
F16; Boyd was using enormous amounts of supercomputer time for the F16
effort and they wanted it charged as theft of millions of dollars of
gov. property (unauthorized computer use). Fortunately, Boyd had
anticipated the venal, corrupt, self-serving of the military-industrial
complex and left no evidence of his computer use.
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
misc. past posts mentioning boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:35:08 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
first up in search engine is
http://www.slideshare.net/arifch2009/ibm-3838-19066487
mark only mnetions it in his history
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/epic.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: assembler Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 19 Feb 2014 09:52:21 -0800tony@HARMINC.NET (Tony Harminc) writes:
folklore I was told was IBM's move to the term "virtual storage" was because of patent on "virtual memory".
there was possibly ancillary reason ... supposedly tss/360 was move to "single level store" .... programmer/application not seeing difference between memory access and file accesss ... all appeared the same. in the early 70s, the future system effort ... which was going to totally replace 360/370 ... was heavily "single level store" and overlapped os/360 movement to "virtual memory".
however, part of tss/360 was very poor optimization for accessing data on
disk in its "single level store". I took a lot of what I saw tss/360 did
wrong when I did my cms paged-mapped filesystem on cp67 at the
scientific center in the early 70s. The FS effort wasn't any better than
what tss/360 had been doing ... and one of the reasons I would
periodically ridicule FS (which probably wasn't the most career enhancing
activity). In any case, that was just one of the things that contributed to the
failure of FS ... misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I suspect that over the years a lot of the stuff I was doing internally
would ship in products ... the reputation that page-mapped filesystem
got from the tss/360 and Future System implementations contributed to
not shipping my cms paged mapped filesystem (although i could show
factor of three times throughput improvement for moderately filesystem
intensive applications).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Bloat Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:31:41 -0500Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
acm sigops circa 1980 at asilomar ... part of the 432 group gave presentation ... one of the issues was that they put high level complex operating system stuff into silicon ... every time they found operating system bug they had to generate new silicon (I've periodically commented that I had done something similar for a special 370 a few years earlier ... but it was microcode ... so much easier to fix "bugs").
overview/intro references both the s/38 and burroughs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#48 Famous Machines and Software that didn't
future system effort had all sorts of stuff ... some drift recent post
mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#74 assembler
posts mentioning FS effort
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
folklore is that after FS failed, several retreated to rochester
and did s/38 ... recent reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#23 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#68 Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#84 CPU time
other past posts mentioning 432:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#112 OS/360 names and error codes (was: Humorous and/or Interesting Opcodes)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#61 TF-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#57 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#62 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#6 Ridiculous
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#54 FBA History Question (was: RE: What's the meaning of track overfl ow?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#36 What was object oriented in iAPX432?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#2 Minimalist design (was Re: Parity - why even or odd)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#32 Number of combinations in five digit lock? (or: Help, my brain hurts)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#27 iAPX432 today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#46 IBM Mainframe at home
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#19 Computer Architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#5 Anyone here ever use the iAPX432 ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#11 computers and alcohol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#5 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#6 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#17 difference between itanium and alpha
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#54 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#55 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#56 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#23 Intel iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#24 Intel iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#47 Intel 860 and 960, was iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#45 hung/zombie users ... long boring, wandering story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#12 real multi-tasking, multi-programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#52 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#60 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#64 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#73 Athlon cache question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#64 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#46 Performance and Capacity Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#29 Data communications over telegraph circuits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#35 Implementing schedulers in processor????
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#31 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#47 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#3 Arpa address
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8 Arpa address
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#42 Why is zSeries so CPU poor?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#44 Any resources on VLIW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#15 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#57 Turbo C 1.5 (1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#7 32 or even 64 registers for x86-64?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#61 ISA Support for Multithreading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#32 Is the media letting banks off the hook on payment card security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#36 Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#27 'Man in the browser' is new threat to online banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#41 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#91 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#95 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#31 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#35 U.S. Identity Theft at Record Level in 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#78 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#89 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#54 Throwaway cores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#32 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#35 Two views of Microkernels (Re: Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#22 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#8 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#9 New Research Reveals 45% of Card Breach Victims Lose Confidence in Their Financial Accounts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#63 Study: Data breaches continue to get more costly for businesses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#52 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of patents ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#32 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#13 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#18 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#46 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#74 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#1 IA64
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#45 IA64
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#40 Faster image rotation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#22 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#28 Personal histories and IBM computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#7 RISCversus CISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#91 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#40 Delinquent Homeowners to Get Mortgage Aid from Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#65 Architecture / Instruction Set / Language co-design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#79 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#2 68000 assembly language programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#15 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#42 i432 on Bitsavers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#29 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#14 International Business Marionette
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#57 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#40 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each other
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#21 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#33 Delay between idea and implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: assembler Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 19 Feb 2014 13:56:31 -0800john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
folklore is that when future system failed, several people retreated to
rochester and did (a "simplified" as) the s/38, capability, single level
store, etc.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
One of the simplification was treating all disk as common
allocation pool with scatter allocation. As a result, the complete
infrastructure had to backed up as single operation ... and any single
disk failure resulted in having to make a complete restore of everything
... restore after a single disk failure could take a day or more. As a
result, s/38 was early adopter of RAID ... patent issued to San Jose
disk engineer late 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
AS/400 was follow-on to combination of s/38 & s/36 ... single-level
store retained ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
but capability-based address was dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i#History
circa 1980 there was an effort to replace large number of internal microprocessors with 801/risc Iliad chips (4361/4381 follow-on to 4331/4341, as/400, lots of controller microprocessors, etc) ... for various reasons ... those efforts floundered and they continued business as usual with customer cisc chips.
later in the 90s, the as/400 was part of the AIM (apple, ibm, motorola) group doing power/pc (single chip 801/risc) activity and finally moved to 801/risc (now system i).
past posts 801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
as an aside, after the failure of the 1980 effort to move to 801/risc ... some number of the chip engineers left and show up on risc projects at other vendors.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Bloat Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:27:37 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
the original sql/relational was done on vm/370 370/145
at ibm san jose research
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
however predating sql was 4th generation languages also done on (virtual
machine based cp67 &/or vm370) some of the online service bureaus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
RAMIS, NOMAD, FOCUS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramis_Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS
one of the issues with normalization was that it doesn't scale ... tends to be very targeted mission specific. typical case study was large corporation that had 6000 different RDBMS which had something like 90% of information in common. A typical case might be a a department borrowing some other departmental RDBMS and throwing out the stuff it didn't need and adding other stuff.
I've also mentioned before experience of NIH's national library of medicine putting UMLS (organization of medical knowledge) in RDBMS ... initial effort took 18m elapsed time ... but most of the stuff still remained unnormalized ... just organized as RDBMS linear tables w/o unique primary values. Then it was taking 12m elapsed time to process 6m of new medical knowledge organization.
another problem is that SQL doesn't handle "unknowns" well ... i.e. for some entities that values haven't yet been discovered/known ... 3-value logic. Part of the issue is that SQL queries doing 3-value logic tends to result in the opposite of what is intuitively expected.
disclaimer: same time I was doing system/r stuff ... I also got con'ed into working on a different kind of relational ... that was even less machine efficient than sql/relational ... but was much more human efficient.
some past RAMIS, NOMAD, FOCUS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#15 CA-RAMIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#17 CA-RAMIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#12 Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#15 Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#15 Pre-relational, post-relational, 1968 CODASYL "Survey of Data Base Systems"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#44 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#35 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#37 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#37 Quote from comp.object
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#17 Newbie question on table design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#54 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#55 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#58 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#21 What non-IBM software products have been most significant to the mainframe's success
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#26 Global Sourcing with Cloud Computing and Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#63 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#55 Maybe off topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#69 "Best" versus "worst" programming language you've used?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#1 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#60 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#51 From Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#84 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#30 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#57 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#16 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#62 Google F1 was: Re: MongoDB
some past posts mentioning UMLS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#26 Misc. more on bidirectional links
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#27 History of Microsoft Word (and wordprocessing in general)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#1 Off-topic everywhere [was: Re: thee and thou
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#45 XML, AI, Cyc, psych, and literature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#50 XML, AI, Cyc, psych, and literature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#53 c.d.theory glossary (repost)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#7 The Network Data Model, foundation for Relational Model
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#52 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#67 Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#0 Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#57 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#45 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#47 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#74 Speculation ONLY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#10 Boyd & Beyond 2010, review at Zenpundit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#87 Old data storage or data base
some past posts mentioning 3-value logic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#40 How to cope with missing values - NULLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#75 NULL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#15 Amusing acronym
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#35 The Worth of Verisign's Brand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#19 Implementation of boolean types
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#20 So what's null then if it's not nothing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#23 So what's null then if it's not nothing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#33 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#34 CJ Date on Missing Information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#22 3 value logic. Why is SQL so special?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#27 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#21 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#30 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#1 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#34 Is the Relational Database Doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#32 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#30 SQL injection attack claims 132,000+
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#65 You know you've been Lisp hacking to long when
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#8 Initial ideas (orientation) constrain creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#6 "hexadecimal"?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:28:45 -0500greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
from above:
You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three -- and
perhaps as many as 16 -- of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have
been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around
with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t")
worth of financial instruments.
... snip ...
posts mentioning libor fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
and the latest is claimed to be worse than libor
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-16/metals-currency-rigging-worse-than-libor-bafin-s-koenig-says.html
http://rt.com/business/currency-rigging-worse-libor-759/
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/top-german-regulator-precious-metal-currency-manipulation-worse-libor.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-16/precious-metals-manipulation-worse-libor-german-regulator-says
http://wchildblog.com/2014/01/24/worse-than-libor-rigging/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:12:05 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
more private equity buying up distressed home properties, renting them out ... and securitizing the rents
Rental Income Falls 7.6% in Three Months in Blackstone's First Home
Lease Securtization
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/rental-income-fall-7-6-three-months-blackstones-first-home-lease-securtization.html
from above:
As we discussed in ECONNED, dealers do not want to wind up stuck with
the riskiest inventory from securitizations, so the ability to sell
these deals is constrained by the ability to place the more speculative
tranches. For subprime mortgage backed securities, the way to escape
these limits was to create CDOs, which became a Ponzi (the risky
tranches of CDOs were similarly unwanted and were sold to other
CDOs). We've discussed other risks to these deals, such as localities
imposing tougher conditions on absentee landlords and regulators taking
an interest in the servicing of rental properties. So the jury remains
out as to whether this deal was the beachhead for a new product
category, or whether investors were foolish to be buying what Blackstone
was selling.
... snip ...
Rents Used to Pay Blackstone Leased-Home Bonds Decline 7.6%
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/rents-used-to-pay-leased-home-bonds-fall-7-6-morningstar-says.html
posts mentioning toxic cdos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:31:23 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon
energy-manuverability was done earlier ... but early work on F16 design
was later ... circa time-frame of 6600, 7600, 91, 95 ... before getting
"official" funding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon#Lightweight_Fighter_Program
from above:
Air Force F-X proponents remained hostile to the concept because they
perceived it as a threat to the F-15 program. However, the Advanced Day
Fighter concept, renamed F-XX, gained civilian political support under
the reform-minded Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who favored
the idea of competitive prototyping. As a result in May 1971, the Air
Force Prototype Study Group was established, with Boyd a key member, and
two of its six proposals would be funded, one being the Lightweight
Fighter (LWF). The Request for Proposals issued on 6 January 1972 called
for a 20,000-pound (9,100 kg) class air-to-air day fighter with a good
turn rate, acceleration and range, and optimized for combat at speeds of
Mach 0.6-1.6 and altitudes of 30,000-40,000 feet (9,100-12,000 m). This
was the region where USAF studies predicted most future air combat would
occur. The anticipated average flyaway cost of a production version was
$3 million. This production plan, though, was only notional as the USAF
had no firm plans to procure the winner.[13][14]
... snip ...
It was more than "hostile", one of the schemes was to try and get Boyd thrown in Leavenworth.
Besides E-M, F16, boyd also wrote the USAF fighter pilot training manual. Boyd tells the story of CIA showing him translated copy of the Soviet's fighter pilot training manual ... and its his manual. With all that, the USAF effectively disowned him ... and at his funeral at Arlington, it was the Marines that showed up ... and his effects went to the Marine library/museum at Quantico (the commandant of Marine Corps had leveraged Boyd for make-over of the corp circa 1990).
Boyd posts and references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
The term "supercomputer" was used prior to Cray1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
from above:
The 6600 was the first commercial supercomputer, outperforming
everything then available by a wide margin. While expensive, for those
that needed the absolutely fastest computer available there was nothing
else on the market that could compete.
... snip ...
Control Data 6600: The Supercomputer Arrives
http://www.drdobbs.com/control-data-6600-the-supercomputer-arri/184404102
cdc7600 (1969)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_7600
from above:
The CDC 7600 was the Seymour Cray-designed successor to the CDC 6600,
extending Control Data's dominance of the supercomputer field into the
1970s
... snip ...
of course, there was stretch ... which was an earlier "non-commercial"
supercomputer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch
from above:
The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized
supercomputer. Originally designed to meet a requirement formulated by
Edward Teller at Lawrence Livermore, the first example was delivered to
Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1961, and a second customized version,
the IBM 7950 Harvest, to the National Security Agency in 1962.
... snip ...
for other drift, the Seymour article mentions Joel Birmbaum. Joel left
IBM Research to head up HP labs ... about the time the various early 801
efforts were crashing ... recently mentioned here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#76 assembler
HP labs was one of the places some of the 801/risc chip engineers went
(and worked on HP's risc chip) ... and some wondered if I would be going
also. Old post with several emails on the subject from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#65 801 (was Re: Reviving Multics)
other drift, thornton also had a lot to do with 6600 ... past posts
mentioning thornton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#11 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#27 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:03:51 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
recently there has been increasing criticism of F35 ... and some references to what kind of dirty tricks might MICC use ... I've been explicitly told to stop making various kinds of technical critisms of F35 in some social media venues. and from today (note: I've been periodically asked, but no, no relation):
Great quote
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/02/great-quote.html
from above:
Wheeler: Lockheed-Martin cannot design effectively performing,
affordable combat aircraft, but they are without peer in designing a
greasy plan to foist the aircraft on the US and multiple foreign
buyers. I am in awe of their skill in doing that; they successfully
convince otherwise rational people to ignore empirical data, to believe
that press releases spout biblical truth and to embrace new promises in
the face of scores of broken ones. Those are awesome powers.
... snip ...
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
some recent F35 specific posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#4 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#51 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:39:44 -0800 (PST)re:
The guy at Eglin that aided Boyd in the calculations for what become f16 (actually fly off competitor ... they did stuff later making it heavier and not as good) ... did most of hiding the accounting use ... was at Boyd Quantico conference a couple months ago. The E/M work was much earlier
posts mentioning boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:37:42 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
I believe that USAF made his fighter pilot training manual available to other allies/NATO ... early on ... and it leaked out from there. So I never heard anybody even guess where the Soviets might have gotten a copy ... since allied air forces all over the world were using it.
before E/M ... boyd was instsructor at Nellis USAF Weapons School and
become known as 40-second Boyd ... for standing offer to all fighter
pilots in the world to challenge him in dog fight ... he would give the
challenger the advantage on his tail and the bet was he would reverse
the situation in 40seconds (actually 20seconds, but he gave himself a
few seconds leeway), he never lost:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_%28military_strategist%29
There was Eglin computer use for E/M theory ... separate from the
computer use for later F16 design work. Some accounts have garbled the
computer use for E/M and the computer use for F16 design ... Boyd
telling of the story was it was the F15 crowd that was trying to have
him thrown in Leavenworth for his work on what became the F16
... because they viewed it as competitive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon
from above:
Together, they were the visionaries who conceived the LFX Lightweight
Fighter program, which ultimately produced both the F-16 and McDonnell
Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, the latter a development of the YF-17 Light
Weight Fighter. Boyd's acolyte Pierre Sprey was also largely responsible
for developing the highly successful Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt
II or "Warthog" ground-support aircraft, although Boyd himself was not
involved in this project, his interest being in air superiority fighter
aircraft.
... snip ...
before starting on F16 work, he had also significantly improved the
design for the F15 (cutting its weight nearly in half) ... for which he
gets little credit:
Boyd was brought to the Pentagon by Major General Arthur C. Agan, Jr. to
do mathematical analysis that would support the McDonnell Douglas F-15
Eagle program in order to pass the Office of the Secretary of Defense's
Systems Analysis process.
... snip ...
this is tribute to John's passing
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1997-07/genghis-john
but it is also here
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
which includes some more details of the "Genghis John" period in the 70s when he was at the pentagon working on light-weight fighter design (and "fast transient" maneuvers).
another Boyd account
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/JohnBoyd.htm
from above:
Year 1967 was the worst one for the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam. It was
now clear that the Air Force had no air superiority fighter. The 10:1
exchange ratio of the Korean War had dropped to near parity or was even
advantageous to the North Vietnamese. After the war only one USAF pilot
had the five kills needed for ace status. North Vietnam had 16 aces that
were combat veterans and had fought in the air for years. USAF continued
the Korean War tradition and rotated pilots to non-combat duties after
100 combat missions. Even worse was to train transport and SAC pilots
fast to fighters and rotate them through Vietnam to get a combat tour
under their belt.
... snip ...
Burton shows up last fall ... he wrote a book about some his
experiences part of which HBO made into movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
somewhat concentrated on Bradley. Burton talked about being in the first class to graduate from Air Force academy and on fast track to become General ... until he got entangled with Boyd ... and Boyd's challenges to do the right thing (his famous quotes about choosing between To Be or To Do) when his career hits a brick wall.
After Boyd passed, USAF did dedicate Boyd Hall at Nellis ... reference
to the dedication 17Sept1999 (dedication includes the To Be or To Do
quote ... this version is little cleaned up)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#35 War, Chaos, & Business (web site), or Col John Boyd
last summer, Boyd Hall was rededicated after undergoing a complete renovation.
posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Also as mentioned, besides being used by the commandant of Marine corp ... for make-over of the corp ... he was also brought back to do the battle plan for Desert Storm (which they failed to follow through with).
GAO has Desert Storm report about a large percentage of Iraqi tanks
were taken out by airstrikes before the ground war begins (lots of
them by A10s both before and after the ground war starts). GAO has
Iraqis walking away from the tanks ... even before the ground war
begins ... because they had become "sitting ducks" (for
airstrikes). Coalition tank forces then report "killing" large number
of Iraqi tanks w/o taken any return damage at all ... however it isn't
reported how many of those tanks had anybody home
http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-97-134
UCSD business school is having a Boyd business innovation conference
coming up the end of the month which will have several Boyd acolytes
http://boydbusinessinnovationconference.com/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:57:10 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
Scott has some number of refs to Boyd & Beyond
http://tobeortodo.com/
this has some stuff about Boyd & Behond ... but harder to find
http://zenpundit.com/
a little B&B
http://zenpundit.com/?p=27223
http://zenpundit.com/?p=25619
http://zenpundit.com/?p=22250
http://zenpundit.com/?p=28824
Chet's blog (one of Boyd's acolytes and scheduled to be at
UCSD business school conference)
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/
some filed here
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/category/boyds-theories/
old archive (original website was breached)
http://dnipogo.org/
blog by another Boyd acolytes (and also scheduled
for UCSD business conference)
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/
I also have more Boyd references here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd2
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:29:33 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
dirty tricks ... there was F15 forces trying to have Boyd put in
Leavenworth in order to shutdown F16, which they viewed as competitive.
Then Boyd tells of spending 18m carefully getting written approval for
everything that appears in the time cover article ... because he was
worried that they would try and put the person in jail (which the SECDEF
tried to do). '83 time cover article at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
posts & URLs mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
i've referenced Hugh Laurie's (TVs house) novel that references
Boyd's OODA-loop ... but also MICC dirty tricks
https://www.amazon.com/The-Gun-Seller-ebook/dp/B000SEGK0M/
loc4605-11:
The day Alexander Woolf decided to take on the military-industrial
complex was the day everything changed. For him, for his family, for his
business. Things changed quickly, and they changed for good. Roused from
its slumber, the military-industrial complex lifted a great, lazy paw,
and swatted him away, as if he were no more than a human being. They
canceled his existing contracts and withdrew possible future ones. They
bankrupted his suppliers, disrupted his labour force, and investigated
him for tax evasion. They bought his company's stock in a few months and
sold it in a few hours, and when that didn't do the trick, they accused
him of trading in narcotics. They even had him thrown out of the St
Regis, for not replacing a fairway divot.
... snip ...
I've commented that truth is stranger than fiction ... F15 forces trying to put away Boyd for doing the F16.
Then there is Success of Failure account
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
where they make the same charges against the whistleblower as in the
most recent incident ... even tho it was just reporting to the
responsible congressional committee and no release of classified
material ... only relatively recently dismissed (i.e. the real threat
was to senior executive careers ... including agency
directors). However sometime last decade, before ic-arda
https://web.archive.org/web/20050828171703/http://www.ic-arda.org/about_arda.htm
turns into iarpa
http://www.iarpa.gov/whatis.html
we got a call asking us to respond to unclassified BAA, it was the last day and nobody else had responded ... it basically said that none of the tools they had did the job. We wrote a response and then had some meetings that we could do what was needed ... and then nothing. Later we were told that senior management had told the analyst (responsible for the BAA) that he hadn't sufficiently proven to them that what they currently had didn't work. Somewhat baffling was why they allowed him to release the BAA at all ... even more baffling is how the Success Of Failure events unfolded
the recent incident ... after Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
leaves IBM ... he goes to head up Carlyle, a large private-equity
company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
that does a take-over of BAH ... which was the employer of the
individual in the most recent incident. Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden; The firm that
formerly employed both the director of national intelligence and the
NSA whistleblower merits closer scrutiny
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/edward-snowden-investigate-booz-allen
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:30:18 -0500I was exchanging email with some (Canadian) person about computer stuff and I happen to make a reference to the F35 ... 24M lines of code original was to be 5.7 LOC (compared to 1.7M for F22)
... and then the person wanted a lot more information to send to somebody in the canadian gov (only later did I find out they were referring to the prime minister). update from today
U.S. military jet 2013 Ponzi scheme targets Canada
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/02/us-military-jet-2013-ponzi-scheme.html
and another about the 60mins program
Here's What 60 Minutes Didn't Tell You About the F-35
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/02/heres-what-60-minutes-didnt-tell-you-about-the-f-35.html
a little more recent post on F35 software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#2 Did you see the one about the F-35 and F/A-18?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#28 ELP weighs in on the software issue:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#40 ELP weighs in on the software issue:
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#63 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#72 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#73 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#80 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#81 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#82 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#84 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#85 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:54:01 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
this is when there were some members of congress providing cover. congress had scheduled spinney to testify at a public hearing (basically would be asked everything that would be in article). SECDEF/Pentegon managed to get it moved to end of the day on friday and into one of the smallest congressional hearing rooms. Sat. morning SECDEF held damage control meeting and found there was only passing reference to the contents of the hearing.
Then monday when they had figured they managed to dodge it, time started being delivered around the pentagon. SECDEF then tried to have Spinney charged&jailed ... but every detail had been covered in public congressional hearing and there was written approval for Spinney to divulge every detail. Then SECDEF ordered that Boyd be barred from the Pentagon for life ... however there was enough congressional cover that the SECDEF had to back done.
Note that the MICC has since managed to tieup all members of congress
and nothing like that could happen now ... part of the reason for
this quote (no relation)
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2014/02/great-quote.html
MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#63 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#72 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#73 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#80 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#81 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#82 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#84 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#85 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#86 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Optimization, CPU time, and related issues Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Feb 2014 07:35:57 -0800shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
note in the middle 70s ... they consolidated all the US HONE systems
(worldwide online sales&marketing support) in silicon valley (when
FACEBOOK started they moved into a new bldg built next door to the old
US HONE datacenter ... this is before FACEBOOK took over the old SUN
campus).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Part of the effort for HONE was creating the largest single-system image loosely-coupled operation in the world (of multiprocessor systems). Normal operation had been to use disk controller RESERVE/RELEASE commands for loosely-coupled operation (analogous to LOCK/UNLOCK operations in tightly-coupled multiprocessor operation). However, a (much more efficient) compare&swap channel program was developed. A full-track record was defined for each disk. A processor did read of the record ... and updated the image to reflect the resources it would be using ... and then did a compare&swap channel program ... basically search (data) equal on the record ... and if successful would do a write operation with the updated record ... otherwise the operation would fail. This cluster operation supported workload throughput load-balancing and failure recovery across the complex. In part because of earthquake concerns the Cal. datacenter was replicated first in Dallas and then a 3rd in Boulder in the early 80s (could do load balancing and failure recovery across all 3 datacenters ... but somewhat more complicated).
Of course none of this cluster support was ever released to customers
... a little of similar support finally recently leaking out 30yrs
later:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#46 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#46 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#47 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#59 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
This was about the time my wife was con'ed into going to POK to be in
charge of (mainframe) loosely-coupled architecture and came up with
Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
however, it found little uptake (except for IMS hotstandby) until sysplex & parallel sysplex ... which contributed to her not staying long in the position. Another factor was that the SNA forces were constantly trying to force her into using SNA for loosely-coupled operation ... there would be temporary truces where she could do whatever she wanted within the walls of the datacenter (SNA "owned" everything that crossed the datacenter wall) ... but then they would start attacking again.
re: reserve/release, compare&swap channel program ... modulo not having
ACP-RPQ locking installed on 3830 disk controller. some past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#39 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#50 Another difference between platforms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#12 Testing hardware RESERVE
and of course, the compare&swap instruction was originally
invited by charlie when he was doing fine-grain multiprocessor
locking for cp67 at the science center (name of instruction
chosen because CAS are charlie's initials). past posts mentioning
multiprocessor &/or compare&swap instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:55:54 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
includes reference to computers at WPAFB ....
While elegant in its simplicity, and computationally straightforward,
Boyd's energy-maneuverability theory was a gargantuan number-cruncher
that required millions of calculations. The only way to do these
calculations was with a computer, but in the early 1960s computer
calculations were slow, computer time was expensive--and Boyd had no
budget. Furthermore, the aeronautical engineers were not interested in
the inspiration of a dumb fighter pilot with a yukky industrial
engineering degree. To make matters even worse, Boyd had no right to
design airplanes--he worked at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, where
rednecks tested bombs designed by others, whereas the airplane designers
worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio, the home of
the Wright brothers and the mecca for aeronautical engineering. For a
man like Boyd, there was only one thing to do. He concocted a daring
plan to steal thousands of hours of computer time by making it appear
that the computer was being used for something else.
Much to the dismay of the autocrats at Wright-Pat, the Mad Major's
theory of energy-maneuverability (E-M) turned out to be a stunning
success. It provided a universal language for translating tactics into
engineering specifications and vice versa and revolutionized the way we
look at tactics and design fighter airplanes.
Boyd used it to explain why the modern F-4 Phantom performed so poorly
when fighting obsolete MiG-17s in Vietnam and went on to devise new
tactics for the Phantom--whereupon Air Force pilots began to shoot down
more MiGs.
He used it to re-design the F-15, changing it from an 80,000-pound,
swing-wing, sluggish behemoth, to a 40,000-pound fixed-wing,
high-performance, maneuvering fighter. His crowning glory was his use of
the theory to evolve the lightweight fighters that eventually became the
YF-16 and YF-17 prototypes--and then to insist that the winner be chosen
in the competitive market of a free-play flyoff.
The YF-16, which won, is still the most maneuverable fighter ever
designed. The production successors, the not-so-lightweight F-16 (Air
Force) and the F/A-18 (the Navy-Marine Corps aircraft that evolved from
the YF-17), together with the F-15, dominate the skies today. Naturally,
Boyd believed they could have been much better war machines if the
bureaucrats had not corrupted their thoroughbred design with so many
bells and whistles. Nevertheless, more than any other single person,
the Mad Major is responsible for our nation's unsurpassed air
superiority, which began in the mid-1970s and continues to this day.
... snip ...
posts mentioning boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
other posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#63 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#72 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#73 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#80 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#81 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#82 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#84 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#85 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#86 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#87 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Why do bank IT systems keep failing ? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:01:40 -0500Ibmekon writes:
I've periodically pontificated about large part of financial spent billions on (failed) re-engineering batch cobol overnight batch settlement move to parallel straight-through processing on large numbers of "killer micros" in the 90s.
gissue was batch cobol financial dates from 60s/70s followed by real-time front-ends added along the way ... but final settlement left to overnight.
early 90s globalization was starting to limit the size of the overnight window and business increases was putting enormous strain on getting everything done in the overnight window.
the issue was that 1) they were using some off-the-self parallelization code 2) they did toy demos with the code, 3) ignored speeds&fees showing that the parallelization code introduced factor of 100 times overhead (compared to batch cobol). The resulting deployments went down in huge flames.
Last decade I was involved in taking some technology for straight through processing to industry standards bodies ... at first there was high acceptance ... then nothing. We were eventually told that there were still quite a few executives that bore the scars from the 90s failures and it would have to wait for new generation before trying again. the "new" approach involved decomposing business rules into fine-grain SQL statements and rely on the significant work done by major RDBMS vendors on high-performance parallel throughput (rather than trying to write RYO code using parallelization libraries).
the other scenario is comparable to the large beltway bandits and
consulting houses and the Success Of Failure involving large number of
IT modernization efforts.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
other Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
recent posts mentioning overnight batch window and straight through
processing:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Why do bank IT systems keep failing ? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:24:56 -0500re:
a certain agency in maryland is supposedly the largest employer (but
that has to include contractors that now accounts for over half of
people in intelligence) as well as largest user of electricity in
maryland ... as well subject of Success Of Failure article from 2007
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
other Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
related mention in this wandering thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
which also references the whistleblower in the 2007 case ... posts
mentioning whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
a certain financial (dataprocessing) outsourcing company has been the
2nd or 3rd largest employer in maryland and also major user of
electricity (and largest employer in another state or two) ... mentioned
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55 Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
.... in 1992, had been the largest IPO (up until that time), and in 2007
was the largest reverse-IPO (up until that time) currently owned by
large private-equity company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Re: Why do bank IT systems keep failing ? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:52:29 -0800 (PST)re:
Compare to f22 which took 20yrs and the f35 schedule has slipped to over 20yrs and is predicted to slip more. One of the refrains is sort of given infinite amount of time they are sure they'll fix all the problems. In the mean time there are reports that designs have leaked out of contractor networks multiple times. That is besides 24m lines of software that has to be developed (compared to less than 2m for f22)
posts mentioning military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent f35 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#0 Navy's F-35C Completes Landing Tests Ahead of October Sea Trials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#1 If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#51 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Curious observation: lack of a simple optimization in a C program Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Feb 2014 07:44:12 -0800john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
One of the issues is the (pascal) implementation had none of the
exploits that have been epidemic in c-language implementions
... observation it is about as hard for a programmer to *NOT* have such
exploits in c-language as it is for a pascal programmer to have such
problems. past posts mentioning c-language exploits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
in the period that IBM had gone into the red and was re-organized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company (until the board brought in Gerstner who reversed the breakup and resurrects the company) ... there was big move for business operations to get off of proprietary tools & platforms. Part of this was to transfer proprietary tools to standard industry tool vendors and get them running on industry standard platforms. I had to do one such pascal 50,000+ lines of code vlsi application. Problem was that pascal on some of these other platforms appeared to have been used for little else than introduction to programming classes (one such platform was in the local area, but they had outsourced their pascal support to someplace 12 time zones away, located near a space launch center).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Optimization, CPU time, and related issues Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Feb 2014 09:57:49 -0800PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
Stretch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch
Harvest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest
End of IBM Advanced Computing Systems ... includes Amdahls account of
IBM executives terminating the project because they were afraid that it
might advanced computing state-of-the-art too fast and they would loose
control of the market ... at the end, it discusses some of the acs-360
features that show up more than 20yrs later in es/9000
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
because I had lots of access to early engineering 4341 ... i was
periodically asked to do benchmarks ... including national lab looking at having
70 4341 in a compute farm (4341 environmentals made it possible to
deploy out in departmnental areas ... sort of leading edge of the coming
distributed computing tsunami ... and its price/performance got it
increasing use for compute farms ... sort of the coming cluster
supercomputers). ... some old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
POK 3033 management at one point felt so threatened by 4341 cluster compute farms that they got internal allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component cut in half
recent post with old 158, 3031, 4341 comparisons for national lab (about same as
3031 & 1/4-1/3 faster than 370/158)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#61 I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?)
above also has numbers for 145, 168-3, 360/91 and cdc6600 (original commercial "supercomputer")
370/158 & vax have been used as baseline for Dhrystone benchmarks
... both doing appox. same number of iterations/sec ... considered to be
approx. 1MIPS. some recent posts about BIPS benchmark comparisons:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#102 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:43:13 -0500hancock4 writes:
real-estate payments with cash were some of the scenarios with too big
to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
doing money laundering for drug cartels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
a problem with the gov. bending over backwards to keep them operating ... they haven't been willing to shut them down and throw the executives in jail (even when the claims are that the too big to fail money laundering is enabling/funding drug cartels and terrorists violent acts).
there is recent scenario with private equity companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
buying up homes with cash and turning them into rental properties and then securitizing the rents (sort of the way mortgages had been securitize).
Private Equity and the Crapification of Rental Housing: Questions from a
Newbie
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/private-equity-crapification-housing.html
for more drift, for years private equity has mis-representing its finances ... recent scenario that SEC trying to retro-actively unmake it illegal
SEC Ponders Break for Private Equity Over Broker Rules
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-22/sec-ponders-break-for-private-equity-over-broker-rules.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:45:58 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
while "Z" mainframes have faster processor cycle times ... their memory latency issues aren't that advanced.
x86 & risc have been doing memory latency and cache miss mitigation for some time ... out-of-order execution, superscaler, multiple execution unit, branch prediction, speculative execution, threads, etc. ... trying to keep the execution units fed.
these are fixed-point BIPS (and looks like scalar floating point
operations possibly 2/3rds integer) for recent mainframe generations
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000
z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003
z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005
z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008
z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010
EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012
the claim is that around half the per processor improvement of going
from z10 to z196 (469MIPS to 625MIPS) was introduction of some
out-of-order, branch prediction, and speculative execution features
... and further improvements in such features account for some of the
per processor improvement from 625mips to 743mips.
The base price for 80 processor z196 works out to $560,000/BIPS and IBM financials has the mainframe division earning total of $6.25 for every dollar of processor, making a mainframe system around $3.5M/BIPS.
by comparison a (1st generation) e5-2600 (two chips, 8processors/chip) is benchmarked at 400-500+BIPS or in the region of 30BIPS/processor. IBM's base list price for e5-2600 blade was $1815 or around $3.50/BIPS (a millionth that it was getting for mainframe).
The latest x86 E7 announcements are claiming all the industrial
strength features that were suppose to have been done for itanium
(mainframe competition) plus the instruction throughput of risc/power.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2453615,00.asp
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7757/quad-ivy-brigde-ex-60-cores-120-threads/11
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh022414-story01.html
above include comments about four chip E7-V2 blades @15procs/chip would yield 60 processor (& 120 threads) blades. Before IBM announced selling its X86 server business to Lenovo ... it announced NeXtScale high-density encloser ... a 6U 12 blade encloser ... even just six 6u enclosers in 42u rack ... or 72 blades/rack (better than 4k processors/rack, 100+TIPS/rack)
recent post mentioning e5-2600s and/or z196
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#18 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#72 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#103 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#62 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues
recent Lenovo posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#14 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#34 IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#48 IBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
past posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#63 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#72 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#73 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#80 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#81 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#82 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#84 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#85 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#86 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#87 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#89 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM ACS Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:18:32 -0500Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
well before ... 145 had around 400+nsec memory ... and adding virtual memory just required new microcode load ... since the machines had virtual memory already working by the time first shipped.
the 370/155 & 370/165 had 2msec access memory and cache and required hardware changes to add virtual memory.
I've periodically related that there was a lot more in 370 virtual memory architecture ... but the engineers were having lots of problems getting all the features implemented for 370/165 ... which would have resulted in virtual memory announcement slipping by six months. There were resolution/escalation meetings ... where various features were dropped from 370 virtual memory architecture in order to keep virtual memory announcement on schedule (and simplify the problem for 370/165).
one of the original 370 virtual memory features (that got dropped) was (shared) segment r/o protect (set flag in STE and disable all store operations into that virtual segment ... since it was in the address space segment table entry ... some address spaces could be r/o protected for the segment while other address spaces could have r/w for the same shared segment). The morph of cp67/cms to vm370/cms had reorganized CMS to leverage (shared) segment protect. When it was dropped to help 165 ... vm370/cms had to revert to ugly hack for r/o protect (had been used in cp67).
virtual memory for 155 & 165 was announced as extra cost features as 370/155-II and 370/165-II.
the 370/158 & 370/168 replaced the 2msec access memory with memory that had access about same as 145. I was involved with some work with 168 processor engineers (who went on to do 3033 ... which started out as 168 logic mapped to 20% faster chips). the 165/168/3033 were horizontal microcoded machines that did some number of operations overlapped ... with throughput expressed as avg machine cycles per instruction (145 and below were vertical microcode microprocessors ... 370 microcode was somewhat similar to the 370 simulators running on x86 machines). 165 was avg. of 2.1 machine cycles per 370 instruction, the microcode was optimized for 168 getting to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instruction, and close to 1 machine cycle per 370 instruction for 3033.
this was purely cache hit throughput numbers ... not taking into account
memory latency for cache miss ... a few recent posts mentioning memory
access latency, measured in processor cycles ... is comparable to
1960s disk access latency, measured in 1960s processor cycles.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#103 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#62 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#96 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
in the mid-70s time-frame (168-1, 168-3) ... part of the issue was that
IBM was distracted with FS project ... that was going to completely
replace 360/370 and completely different ... as a result 370 efforts
were being suspended and/or killed off. The dearth of 370 products
during the FS period is credited with giving clone processors a market
foothold. past refs to FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Credit Suisse 'cloak-and-dagger' tactics cost US taxpayers billions Date: 26 Feb 2014 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityCredit Suisse 'cloak-and-dagger' tactics cost US taxpayers billions -- senators John McCain and Carl Levin say offshore schemes operated by Swiss firm helped 22,000 Americans hide billions from taxman
x-over from similar HSBC & UBS discussion
Note news in 2009 was that the IRS was going after 52,000 wealthy
americans that used swiss accounts to evade $400B in taxes ... then in
2011 there were news reports that congress was cutting the budget for
reclaiming taxes from the 52,000 wealthy americans (even tho that
budget was showing the highest ROI of any IRS enforcement
activity). Subsequent news was that various institutions were being
fined for helping wealthy americans evade taxes ... but nothing about
it actually being stopped (sort of on par with stories about too big
to fail being fined for money laundering for drug cartels and
terrorists) UBS tax evasion controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS_tax_evasion_controversy
UBS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS
it is listed as "wealth management"
UBS CEO says no plans to sell U.S. wealth management arm
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-ubs-us-idUSBRE92C0EP20130313
fine of $780M but nothing said about where is the $400B in unpaid taxes.
Offshore Tax Evasion: The Effort To Collect Unpaid Taxes On Billions
In Hidden Offshore Accounts
http://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2014/02/25/offshore-tax-evasion-the-effort-to-collect-unpaid-taxes-on-billions-in-hidden-offshore-accounts/
Swiss bank accused of helping clients evade US taxes
http://news.yahoo.com/swiss-bank-accused-helping-clients-evade-us-taxes-004852389.html;_ylt=AwrSyCSfTg1THTcAfUbQtDMD
Report: Swiss Banks Used 'Cloak And Dagger' Tactics To Avoid US Tax
Law
http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/02/26/report-swiss-banks-used-cloak-and-dagger-tactics-to-avoid-us-tax-law/
from above:
$197 million may seem like a lot but it is a drop in the bucket for
Credit Suisse who has made billions off the practice over the years
and has $924 billion in total assets. It is still not exactly resolved
as to what Credit Suisse will do going forward. Evading taxes is a
major business for them and Swiss law does not make it a crime.
... snip ...
The 2009 estimate was there was $400B in unpaid taxes ... which may possibly have doubled by now.
Offshore Tax Evasion: The Effort To Collect Unpaid Taxes On Billions
In Hidden Offshore Accounts
http://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2014/02/25/offshore-tax-evasion-the-effort-to-collect-unpaid-taxes-on-billions-in-hidden-offshore-accounts/
Senators take on offshore tax evasion under the mantra, every billion
counts; The CEO of Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-largest bank,
will appear at a tax evasion hearing by a Senate subcommittee
Wednesday, following an investigation by the panel.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0225/Senators-take-on-offshore-tax-evasion-under-the-mantra-every-billion-counts
Senate Offshore Tax Cheating Report Skewers Credit Suisse And U.S. Justice Department This article was updated at 5 A.M. on Feb. 26th with comments from the Department of Justice.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2014/02/25/senate-offshore-tax-cheating-report-skewers-credit-suisse-and-the-u-s-justice-department/
Credit Suisse Helped Rich Americans Evade Billions In Taxes
http://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/credit-suisse-helped-rich-americans-evade-billions-in-taxes-268748
Credit Suisse Helped U.S. Clients Hide Billions in Assets, Senate Report Says
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/credit-suisse-helped-u-s-clients-hide-assets-senate-report-says/
Credit Suisse "shredded documents" for US tax evaders
http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/2331030/credit-suisse-shredded-documents-for-us-tax-evaders
semi related
Big Money Lobbying Protects Big Tax Havens
http://washingtoninformer.com/news/2014/feb/24/jackson-big-money-lobbying-protects-big-tax-havens/
A World Corruption Police
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/opinion/27iht-edlebedev27.html?hpw&rref=opinion
from above:
According to the Tax Justice Network, an independent group promoting
efforts to curb tax avoidance, crooked business people, working with
corrupt officials, have embezzled $30 trillion over the last 15 years
-- or half of the world's annual gross domestic
product.
... snip ...
posts mentioning tax havens and tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Reducing Army Size Date: 26 Feb 2014 Blog: FacebookThere were number of stories from summer 2010 about too big to fail laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists but there wasn't much the gov. could do since it was already leaning over so far to keep them in business (wasn't going to shut them down and throw the executives in jail). More recent stories are that the money laundering is major enabler for all the cartel&gang related violence.
American Government Backed Murderous Mexican Drug Cartel for More Than
a decade
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-14/american-government-backed-murderous-mexican-drug-cartel-more-decade
from above:
The U.S. government has -- at least at some times in some parts of the
world -- long protected drug operations. (Big American banks also
launder money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this.
Indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths
of the 2008 financial crisis.)
And opium production is at an all-time high under the American
occupation of Afghanistan.
... snip ...
Taliban had eliminated opium production and in 2002 CIA played on the
warlords dissatisfaction with loss of drug business
https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization-ebook/dp/B00H2VFGZ4/
loc2082-84:
When the United States decided to support the Northern Alliance before
it attacked the Taliban in early 2002, U.S. officials took action to
ensure this disaffection. Direct payments from Central Intelligence
Agency operatives and the potential of unfettered opium production
under the Northern Alliance exerted a powerful influence on
Afghanistan's guerrilla entrepreneurs.
... snip ...
UNODC monitoring illicit crops
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crop-monitoring/
UN Annual Opium Poppy Survey 2001
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/report_2001-10-16_1.pdf
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
account by sat. photo recon analyst
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2
reports iraqi buildup for invasion of kuwait. admin says that saddam had told them he would do no such thing and they start discrediting the analyst (these are people previously involved in supplying Iraq WMDs in the iraq/iran war, later would fabricate WMDs for justifying invasion of Iraq). He then starts reporting Iraqi buildup for invasion of saudi arabia ... and the administration takes some action.
Early reports of afghan was instead of surgical attack against al
qaeda ... they take the time to marshal forces to fight taliban,
allowing al qaeda to escape. Later a group has sights on Ben Laden
... but rules of engagement require legal approval to take the shot
... which they don't get. and recent news, The FBI had a mole inside
al Qaeda who met with Osama bin Laden eight years prior to 9/11 and
knew he planned to finance terror attacks, but the bureau declined to
tell Congressional investigators or the 9/11 Commission about the
mole, sources involved in the case told NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/fbi-never-revealed-it-had-al-qaeda-mole-who-met-n39076
victims can finally sue gov. of saudi arabia for 9/11
9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-families-39-ecstatic-39-finally-sue-222121660--abc-news-topstories.html
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
Murdoch's NY Post Backs Michael Moore's Bush-Saudi 9/11 Claims
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/16/murdochs-ny-post-backs-michael-moores-bush-saudi-911-claims/
more news on the FBI mole (note FBI failed to inform either congress
or the 9/11 commission)
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/02/fbi-now-admits-to-having-mole-in-osama.html
does it help with suing gov. of Saudia Arabia for 9/11??? How does it impact using excuse of 9/11 for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
posts mentioning military industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
posts mentioning team b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:48:49 -0500"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
Keeping the Drug Money Flowing Patient Front Groups Loot Medicare
Dollars for Big Pharma
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/26/patient-front-groups-loot-medicare-dollars-for-big-pharma/
this is consistent with observations about Medicare part-d (first major legislation after congress allowed the financial responsibility act to expire in 2002 which required spending not exceed tax revenues; part-d has been repeatedly described as an enormus "gift" to the drug industry).
posts mentioning medicare part-d
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
comptroller general would describe it as a long-term $40T unfunded
mandate that comes to dwarf all other budget items
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
recent post about private equity acquiring largest hospital
association
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#17 Royal Pardon For Turing
doing everything they kind to maximize flow of money into the
entities so they can be looted. posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the Fed to the growing danger before the crash Date: 27 Feb 2014 Blog: Google+re:
How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the
Fed to the growing danger before the crash
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-the-fed-let-the-world-blow-up-in-2008/284054/
Griftopia had chapter on how CFTC had rule that players had to have position in commodity to play because speculators resulted in wild, irrational price swings. Then 19 secret letters allowed specific speculators to play ... results included the huge spike in oil price the summer of 2008.
Later a member of congress releases transaction data showing that speculators caused the huge spike in oil price the summer of 2008 ... and there was lots of press criticizing the release of transaction data (violating company privacy).
posts mentionin griftopia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:11:26 -0500re:
How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008; High oil prices blinded the
Fed to the growing danger before the crash
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-the-fed-let-the-world-blow-up-in-2008/284054/
Griftopia had chapter on how CFTC had rule that players had to have position in commodity to play because speculators resulted in wild, irrational price swings. Then 19 secret letters allowed specific speculators to play ... results included the huge spike in oil price the summer of 2008.
Later a member of congress releases transaction data showing that speculators caused the huge spike in oil price the summer of 2008 ... and there was lots of press criticizing the release of transaction data (violating company privacy).
posts mentioning griftopia, cftc, speculators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
some of the of the most egregious player in the housing market bubble
and failure ... packaging toxic CDOs designed to fail, paying for
triple-A rating on the toxic CDOs, selling the triple-A toxic CDOs to
their customers and then taking out CDS bets that they would fail ... was
also a major speculator causing the huge spike in oil price.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Now the claim that FED uses the excuses of the huge spike in oil price for not addressing the crash of the housing market and economy. Presumably that also accounts for the stories that the FED bails out wallstreet while ignoring "main street".
One of Bernanke statements was that he had figured that the too big to fail would turn around and loan to main street all the free money he was providing them (too big to fail). However, he found that they weren't doing that and he had no way to force them to loan to "main street".
posts mentioning Bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:38:38 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
and leaking over from Mexico into the US
Drug trafficker talks CBS News about Mexican drug cartels in the U.S
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-drug-trafficker-talks-about-mexican-drug-cartels-in-the-united-states/
Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Sinaloa Drug Cartel Reached Deep in Chicago
http://nation.time.com/2014/02/26/el-chapo-joaquin-guzman-sinaloa-cartel-chicago/?iid=us-category-mostpop2
and other news ... if gov. saudia arabia can now be sued for 9/11, what were the two wars?
9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-families-39-ecstatic-39-finally-sue-222121660--abc-news-topstories.html
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
Murdoch's NY Post Backs Michael Moore's Bush-Saudi 9/11 Claims
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/16/murdochs-ny-post-backs-michael-moores-bush-saudi-911-claims/
account by sat. photo recon analyst
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2
reports iraqi buildup for invasion of kuwait. admin says that saddam had told them he would do no such thing and they start discrediting the analyst (these are people previously involved in supplying Iraq WMDs in the iraq/iran war, later would fabricate WMDs for justifying invasion of Iraq). He then starts reporting Iraqi buildup for invasion of saudi arabia ... and the administration takes some action.
Early reports of afghan was instead of surgical attack against al qaeda ... they take the time to marshal forces to fight taliban, allowing al qaeda to escape. Later a group has sights on Ben Laden ... but rules of engagement require legal approval to take the shot ... which they don't get. and recent news.
The FBI had a mole inside al Qaeda who met with Osama bin Laden eight
years prior to 9/11 and knew he planned to finance terror attacks, but
the bureau declined to tell Congressional investigators or the 9/11
Commission about the mole, sources involved in the case told NBC News.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/fbi-never-revealed-it-had-al-qaeda-mole-who-met-n39076
more news on the FBI mole (note FBI failed to inform either congress or
the 9/11 commission)
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/02/fbi-now-admits-to-having-mole-in-osama.html
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning MICC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
posts mentioning team B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM ACS Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:53:13 -0500145
from above:
In conventional memories, data is stored in magnetically charged cores
strung on wires. The use of monolithic memory technology, with its
very high circuit density, allows IBM to offer Model 145 users more
than a half-million characters of high-speed storage in about half the
space that would be required by core planes for an equivalent amount
of memory. The more than 1,400 circuit elements on each monolithic
chip are interconnected to make up 174 complete memory circuits.
... snip ...
ibm 370
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370
from above:
In June 1971, on the S/370-145 (one of which had to be 'smuggled' into
Cambridge Scientific Center to prevent anybody noticing the arrival of
an S/370 at that hotbed of virtual memory development -- since this
would have signaled that the S/370 was about to receive address
relocation technology). (Varian 1997:p29[5])
... snip ...
the cp67 development group (4th flr) had actually split off from the science center on its way to morphing into the vm370 development group ... and had taken over the (ibm) boston programming center on the 3rd flr ... the 145 went into a machine room on the 3rd flr. trivia ... the boston programming center only occupied part of the 3rd flr ... the bldg registry listed the rest of the 3rd flr occupied by lawyer offices ... however the phone closet for the 3rd flr was in the ibm area ... and the other occupant was listed as a certain 3letter gov. agency.
145 announce
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/370-145.pdf
from above:
Storage in the Model 145 is a monolithic non-destructive read-out
storage. Storage cycle time ranges from about 202.5 to 315 nanoseconds
depending on the type of operation being executed. A read cycle will
access 72 bits from which the CPU will operate on 36 bits. Monolithic
storage is used for both control and main storage.
... snip ...
165 (and some 155)
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3165.html
from above:
Both Models 155 and 165 have two-level memory systems - - a very
high-performance buffer storage backed by a large main core
storage. This hierarchy, in which the CPU gets data directly from the
faster buffer most of the time, significantly reduces the effective
main storage cycle and closely matches the memory cycle to CPU
cycle. (Model 165 main storage has a 2-microsecond cycle and its
buffer storage has an 80-nanosecond cycle. The Model 155 main storage
has a 2.1-microsecond cycle while its buffer has a 115-nanosecond
cycle. In operation, the 155 accesses four bytes in two cycles -- 230
nanoseconds. A byte is a unit of storage equivalent to a character or
two decimal digits.)
... snip ...
168 announce
http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/370-168.pdf
from above:
The processor storage is an integrated monolithic non-destructive
readout storage. The storage technology is the FET (Field Effect
Transistor) type. The processor storage is available in capacities of
1 to 4 megabytes in one megabyte increments. The storage operates in
four-way interleave mode and a doubleword data width. The cycle is 480
nanoseconds for doubleword fetches and stores. The processor storage
control function contains the Dynamic Address Translation (DAT),
Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB), high-speed buffer, address array,
storage protect and channel buffers.
... snip ...
other product announcements
http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/index.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:17:19 -0500jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
above shows up until late 70s, US costs were tracking similar to other
countries ... and then started to significantly accelerate (while same
time health results weren't improving or delining). this is also happens
to correspond to another change in the US about the same time:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
other
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries/
http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/paris/pdf/Joumard.pdf
part of the cost acceleration and decline in quality involves private
equity move into health care businesses ... attempting to extract
as much as possible
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
and they have a lot of self-interest in preserving the status quo ... keeping costs high and quality low.
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:18:29 -0800 (PST)re:
Post up thread has news item about what happened to the largest hospital association in the country. They're having been similar articles about private equity has been buying up private dentist and doctor practices and packaging them together and sucking out whatever value they can get ... do a little search engine
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:38:05 -0500"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
sorry ... at coffee shop with tablet ... and tablet doesn't have a lot of capability.
reference to upthread post mentioning private equity taking over
largest hospital association
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#17 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#100 Royal Pardon For Turing
one of the references
Outsourcing as an element of the private equity model
http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2013/12/outsourcing-as-element-of-private.html
also
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
has this reference from "The Great Deformation" loc11365-69:
THE HCA PRIVATE EQUITY PLUNDER: STATE POLICY RUN AMOK At the end of the
day, the circumstances of the $33 billion HCA buyout are a screaming
indictment of current policies of the state. HCA is the nation's largest
hospital chain, but it thrives only by dint of the $15 billion it
collects each year from Medicaid and Medicare. These revenues are vastly
inflated compared to what HCA would obtain if it had to compete for
patient dollars in an honest consumer-driven market.
loc11398-401:
The estimate at the time was that this sweeping change in the Medicare
reimbursement régime could have reduced its hospital payments by 30
percent and would have struck a mortal blow at high-cost general
hospital chains like HCA. Stated differently, much of the inflated
EBITDA which was absorbing HCA's $2.0 billion annual interest bill would
have been clawed back to the benefit of taxpayers.
... snip ...
some of the URLs from search engine regarding private equity & health care
Dental Abuse Seen Driven by Private Equity Investments
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/dental-abuse-seen-driven-by-private-equity-investments.html
HCA: The Unsustainable Private Equity Bubble in US Health Care
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/08/15/private-equity-wont-fix-health-care-either/
HCA Shareholders Allege Bain Capital, Other Private Equity Firms
Colluded in Buyout
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/racs-/-icd-9-/-icd-10/hca-shareholders-allege-bain-capital-other-private-equity-firms-colluded-in-buyout.html
A Giant Hospital Chain Is Blazing a Profit Trail
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/business/hca-giant-hospital-chain-creates-a-windfall-for-private-equity.html
private equity looting health care similar to how its looting other
businesses ... a synopses here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Royal Pardon For Turing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:58:09 -0500hancock4 writes:
CMS had a set of anti-fraud best practices that if the state legislatures would adopt, CMS would increase their funding level to 60% (more than making back the additional funding with fraud reduction). medicaid providers lobby in various states managed to block the additional anti-fraud provisions. At least one state, the asst. attorney general in charge of medicaid fraud, resigned over state legislature not passing the anti-fraud provisions.
misc. past posts mentioning medicaid fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#71 "Rat Your Boss" or "Rats to Riches," the New SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#37 WHAT, WHY AND HOW - FRAUD, IMPACT OF AUDIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#31 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#81 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#66 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
somewhat goes hand-in-hand with private equity looting the health care
industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#100 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#105 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#107 Royal Pardon For Turing
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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